Until the Last Pickle Audiobook

Born to a Jewish mother and Ukrainian father during the final years of the Soviet Union Yuliya Patsay grew up believing bread lines were a fun way to spend an afternoon drafts caused pneumonia and that Lenin was everyones benevolent grandpa
After trading pickled herring and Soviet winters for San Francisco fog and yearround produce the real American dream she found herself occupying two parallel universes the first grounded in her Soviet roots and the second in her burgeoning Amerikanskiye beliefs
Irreverent nostalgic and vulnerable Until the Last Pickle is a memoir replete with remembrances anecdotes and exactly 18 recipes Its an exploration of identity and belonging at once deeply personal and broadly relatable told through the lens of one familys totally average immigration journey