Carter will be discussing her memoir “From Under the Russian Snow”
Journalist Michelle A. Carter will discuss her critically acclaimed memoir, “From Under the Russian Snow,” and sign copies of the book at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at the Cinnaminson Library, located at 1619 Riverton Rd.
This searing memoir is punctuated with gutsy reporting and canny (and often humorous) observation of life in Russia during the post-Soviet, pre-Putin bubble of freedom. It would be just a coming-of-(middle) age story, sprawled across the 11 times zones of the planet’s largest country — if life hadn’t intervened.
Carter, who left her job as managing editor of a daily newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area to serve as the USIA Journalist-in-Residence in Russia, has been traveling in and writing about the former Soviet Union for 30 years. Her first book was Children of Chernobyl: Raising Hope From the Ashes (Augsburg, 1993) and it focused on relief efforts to assist the children who were affected by the 1986 explosion and meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine.
