This book (written in Russian and printed on high-quality paper with beautiful color illustrations) is a true-to-life collection of 30 short stories from physicist and electrical engineer Roman Litovsky chronicling his family's harrowing emigration journey in 1989 from Ukraine to the United States during the height of the impending collapse of the USSR. It provides details of his life in Kyiv, traveling throughout Europe to gain freedom from the oppressive Soviet regime, settling in the U.S., and his life thereafter with a great engineering career at a prominent U.S. electro-acoustic company. It also provides an account of his family health problems, believed to have stemmed from radiation exposure from the 1984 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the tragedy of his youngest son's death, to whom this book is dedicated.If you like richly detailed settings and stories of determination and spirit despite many obstacles and oppression, then you'll love Roman Litovsky's sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking accounts in this poignant collection about his life.