'What Balissa means,' Zoe's mother, Julia, chimes in, using the portmanteau Zoe gave her great-grandmother as a baby. 'Because,' Zoe's great-grandmother explains, in Russian, 'when love goes bad, you cannot throw it out the window.' In Russian, okoshka (window) rhymes with kartoshka (potato). Her great-grandmother was very proud of this. Her great-grandmother spoke Russian-and some German. Zoe hoped her confusion was merely a language barrier. The men are different, ranging from a concert pianist, to the brewer of illegal potato vodka, to a fighter for the rights of Soviet Jewish, to a sci-fi loving tech nerd, but the question of the right man - at the right time - persists.Visit Alina Adams's website.'Love is not a potato,' Zoe's great-grandmother Alyssa had been telling her since before Zoe was old enough to know for certain what either word meant. The times are different - the USSR of the 1930s, the USSR of the 1970s, and present day Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Daria's granddaughter, Natasha, faces similar choices, as does Natasha's granddaughter, Zoe. It's about finding the right man for the right time and the right situation.

introduces Daria, and the theme that it's not about just finding the right man. Marshall McLuhan, godfather of the Test, was right! It sets up the theme of the entire book, as well as the characters who put it into motion. With me.”What a fun game! of The Nesting Dolls is actually an excellent preview of what's to come in the story, not to mention what the story is about. But you.” Adam was speaking to Daria now, no one else. She turned to Edward, wondering if he’d heard, if he’d understood, if he realized what this meant? She nodded.ĭaria gasped, covering her mouth with her hand. He was looking at Daria, both of them still breathing heavily from the exertion and the dizziness and… nothing else whatsoever.ĭaria didn’t trust her voice. She lives in New York City with her husband and threeĪdams applied the Test to her new novel, The Nesting Dolls, and reported the following: From page 69: Adam wasn’t looking at Edward. Was born in Odessa, Ukraine, and emigrated from the USSR with herįamily in 1977.

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