Laughing All the Way to Freedom

<p> A sequel to the author's autobiographical trilogy--<I>Shush! Growing up Jewish under Stalin In the Jaws of the Crocodile</I> and <I>Farewell Mama Odessa</I>--this book is part memoir and part cultural study about the challenges of immigration and American accculturation. With self-deprecating humor the author a former Soviet satirist who was punished for trespassing the boundaries of public criticism recollects his growing pains as he overcame his indoctrinated upbringing in a totalitarian society to embrace America's defining values.</p>