McNamer, Deirdre <br/><br/>
My Russian 
/ by Deirdre McNamer. 
 - New York  : Ballantine Books  , c1999. 
 - 278 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Now Francesca is supposedly in Greece with a tour group, but she is actually living in disguise just blocks from where her husband, Ren, and her teenage son await her return. Ren, a lawyer, is recovering from a gunshot wound inflicted some months earlier by a mysterious intruder. Francesca moves unnoticed through the town she calls home, seeing it with the seizing eyes of a traveler. Her memories have a similar hyperclarity. She tells a series of stories that traverse the past four decades, beginning with her childhood in a prairie town ringed by underground missiles aimed at Russia. Her voice is searching, specific, unsparing, and sometimes darkly funny. In the process of listening, we learn who shot her husband, a modest mystery that rests on a larger one: for a woman like Francesca Woodbridge, what makes a fully lived, fully conscious life? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0345439511 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99019140 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Self-actualization (Psychology)----Fiction<br/>Middle aged women----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Adventure stories<br/>Psychological fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3563.C38838  / M92 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC MCN