Barry Shurchin
1) Immigrant
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
The coming-of-age story of Daanyik, a nine-year-old Russian boy whose family immigrates to the United States in the late1970s to pursue the American Dream. Daanyik's childhood of pencil drawings and toy soldier battles in Moscow is interrupted overnight as he is hurled into the harsh reality of adulthood in New York City. Upon losing his father Deema, Daanyik and his mother Meela are left poor, alone, and helpless in a foreign land.