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Hello! Sveiki! (Latvian) Labas! (Lithuanian) Tere! (Estonian)
Prologue: A Country the Size of West Virginia
A Latvian Folk Tale about Ezere
PART ONE: New Jersey Latvian American Girl and Trimda (Exile)
PART TWO: Latvia as a Battlefield—World War II
Dimmed Lights (Great-Grandparents)
Pēteris and Dārta Bičolis of Sēlija
Augusts Jānis and Amālija Rumpēters of Vidzeme
Great-Grandparents Antons and Matilde Lejiņš of Northern Vidzeme
Enemies of the Soviet State: A Latvian Hero and His Bride
Victims of Soviet Repression: Photographs of Velta (b. Rumpētere) and Eduards Rapss
PART THREE: Return to Terra Incognita
The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
Interlude (November 1980–September 1981)
Letter dated January 4, 1983 to my parents in New Jersey
New Beginnings at Krāmu iela 10/4a, Tel. 211951
Excerpts from a letter dated January 15, 1983 to my parents
A Strange Incident at the Rīga Bourse
Zeppelin: Rīga Central Market (Central Kolhoz Market)
“Old Friends” (Bookends) and the Magic of Ramave
Comme des Communistes: Trying to Look Chic in a Command Economy
“Communism’s Victory is Inescapable!”
Fresh Air in the Latvian Countryside
Judenfrei: Tamāra and the Jews of Latvia
Ad Astra per Aspera: Gunārs Astra, Our Bright Star
“Traitors”: Remnants of Bourgeois Nationalism
Kurzeme: Strazde—Spāre—Pope—Ventspils—Ēdole—Alsunga—Kuldīga
A joke about Rīga’s monuments.
1986: Our Rage against the Machine: Chernobyl
Is It Easy to be Young? Latvian Youth Behind the Iron Curtain
1987: Helsinki-86; “Queen Latvia is Awakening”
1988: Life in an Approximation
The Beginning and End of Indian Village
Labvakar! (“Good Evening, Latvia!”)
A Stronghold in the Fatherland
1989: “Come out, justice, from your metal coffin”
1991: The Barricades, January 13–21
1991–1992: A Dream by the Gauja
“And It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”
