{"product_id":"2940153764726","title":"Three Sisters at the Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagine a world of too much freedom.\u003cbr\u003eImagine having too many choices.\u003cbr\u003eImagine foreign languages flooding the television. Imagine gangsters being the only ones making good money. Imagine your parents losing all of their life savings in a matter of weeks. Imagine your children enamored with another country and dreaming of leaving. Imagine your nation imploding from being a world leader to a supplicant for aid in a matter of a few short years.\u003cbr\u003eBecause of an invitation to witness the last rocket launch of the 1980s to the Russian space station, Jeffrey Manber was an eyewitness to this unholy world.\u003cbr\u003e\"Three Sisters\" is the true story of what he saw.\u003cbr\u003eThe memoir opens a window onto the lives of three friends, Olga, Little Irena and Crazy Irena, as they struggled to understand the changing world and how to survive. While Americans celebrated the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyday Moscovites confronted the reality of a society where the government had lost control and services and business and law and order were left to the private sector.\u003cbr\u003eFor Manber, in Russia to develop cooperation with their space program, it was also an eye opener as to what it really means to be both Jewish and American. Lessons the author learned, in all places, in a faraway place called Moscow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeffrey Manber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076220207344,"sku":"2940153764726","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940153764726_p0.jpg?v=1764056438","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940153764726","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}