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trishsg's review
2.0
Canadian author Rory Maclean travels Eastern Europe in 1990 - as the Soviet control and Iron Curtain have recently fallen - with his aunt, who by any calculation I can make, cannot be his aunt. The family of the aunt are discussed throughout the book, but never the connection to the author himself, who is referred to as her nephew, nor his parents, who were a Scottish-Canadian newspaper man and publisher and an English secretary (per Wikipedia and genealogy sites). I really wonder how much of this is complete fiction and the sketchy relationship kind of ruined it for me. If it was presented as fiction, great, but since it was not, I feel deceived.
There were some lovely sections describing the former Soviet Bloc countries, their people, and history.
There were some lovely sections describing the former Soviet Bloc countries, their people, and history.
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