Tag: The Repatriate

  • Tears of joy

    It would be my first of seven talks in California that I would give on The Cold War and my recently published book, “The Repatriate: Love Basketball and the KGB”. Our first stop was Mission Hills, a serene senior citizens community that has a notable museum, the Ararat Eskijian, on its spacious and plush site.…

  • The little girl with brown eyes

    There was a flush of questions that immediately dominated my thoughts as I listened to the woman’s voice on the other end of the telephone. “This is the Shirley Temple look-alike, you wrote about in your book,” the voice said. It was a voice I had not heard for more than a half of a…