book review

 I very seldom use this blog to do a book review but this time I really want to. I have just finished reading "Lessons from the Edge, A Memoir" by Marie Yovanovitch.  If the name sounds familiar, she was the US Ambassador to Ukraine who was ousted from that position when President Trump came into power.  It's a true memoir in that it traces of her life from childhood on.  I found it interesting that her parents immigrated from Russia to Canada, and eventually to the United States.  That interested me because I have a close friend whose father made that same life journey from Russia to Canada to the US.  I will tell you right up front that if you are an avid Trump supporter you won't like the last half of this book, but it is a fascinating look at the State Department and the work that US ambassadors do around the world.  It also helped me understand a great deal more about the history of fighting between Ukraine and Russia.  Really, a well written, fascinating book.  

Side note:  I didn't go looking for this book.  It was on the shelf of new, non-fiction, large print books in our wonderful downtown library, and looked interesting.