Journey Through a Dark Forest: Lyuba and Ivan in the Age of Anxiety, Vol. I: Midway Life's Journey

While the whole world is in the throes of one of the most concentrated periods of Sturm und Drang in recent memory, the Konevs and their friends far and wide struggle to survive and make their way back to some semblance of a peaceful, ordinary world. A high-risk pregnancy, immigration, and the path from friends to lovers are at the fore from 1933-35.