Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I'm in the States I feel at home, too.
I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.
I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.
I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.
The thing is, I grew up in L.A., so I had this unique opportunity to live in both communist Russia and see that life, and then move to America as a young girl and experience a completely different life.
I was born in Eastern Europe, in Latvia, and I'm fluent in Russian.
I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.