Lost in Moscow
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By Koza, Kirsten ISBN: 9780888012821format: Paperback pages: 300 publisher: Turnstone Press pub. date: 2003-11-30 |
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When most parents consider sending their child to summer camp, they
imagine a sunny lake a few hours out of the city. In 1977, the parents
of eleven-year-old Kirsten Koza sent their pigtailed, sass-talking
offspring on a summer trip to the Soviet Union-with only fifty dollars
in her pocket. Lost in Moscow tells the story of Kirsten's summer camp
hi-jinks.
Excited but a little apprehensive about her circumstances, Kirsten does
what every young girl from suburban Canada does at camp-complains about
the food, balks at using the toilets, and mocks her group's leaders
behind their backs. But she also evades the Soviet Red Army in a foot
race through and around Red Square, receives extended radiation
treatments for a minor case of tonsillitis, and makes a gut-churning,
unauthorized parachute jump-without being totally certain whether her
parachute would open or even stay on.
Told from the point of view and in the voice of the young Kirsten, Lost
in Moscow is sex, politics, religion, fashion and finance through the
eyes of an eleven-year-old. Hilarious and at times hair-raising, this is
a highly unusual travel memoir-a story about children, but definitely
not for children.
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