The Summer Garden

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The war and years of separation are behind them. Tatyana and Alexander, who met in Leningrad in 1941 and then lost each other for a long time, are together again. But why does the long-awaited closeness not bring the old joy? Haven’t they proved that their love can withstand any evil? They have a wonderful son growing up, and they live in the country they chose for themselves. And yet a cold distance arises between them, one that is not so easy to overcome. The road back to each other proves difficult: America in the Cold War era is full of anxiety and suspicion, and this puts their family at risk. Tatyana and Alexander wander from state to state, never finding a place they can call their own, like tumbleweed without roots. Is it destined for them to find a true home in postwar United States? Or will the shadows of the past catch up with them and darken even the future of their firstborn?
“Summer Garden” is the final book in the trilogy by Polina Simons, an American writer born in the Soviet Union in 1963 and who moved with her family to the USA ten years later. Years later, the author returned to Russia to gather material for the novel and, together with her characters, go through the ordeals that befell them.