The Traitor's Daughter: Captured by the Nazis, Pursued by the Kgb, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past: Captured by the Nazis, Pursued by the Kgb, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past 2 In this debut essay collection

In this debut essay collection

Jack is glad to be back

in this third book in her chapter book series

and the vengeful ghosts of their pasts

A Best Literary Novel of 2025 from ELLE

The Traitor's Daughter: Captured by the Nazis, Pursued by the Kgb, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past: Captured by the Nazis, Pursued by the Kgb, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past 2 In this debut essay collectionINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER The masterful narration of a daughter's decades long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin's Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity but never revealed her darkest secrets. As a child, Roxana Spicer would sometimes wake to the sound of the Red Army choir. She would tip toe downstairs to find her mother, cigarette in one hand and Black