Oddly, there’s a lot more to this book than meets the eye. It gets passed around, it’s in libraries, it costs a lot of money to buy a copy if you can get your hands on it. And in Russia, in Russia, it’s mandatory reading for every school kid. Mandatory. They got their hands on a copy, years ago, as the Soviet Union, and released it in installments in the only Soviet teen magazine. This was in the 80s- I had no idea! I thought they were kidding when I heard about it. Because my grandfather was a persecuted Russian Jew who escaped the country, so how ironic is that? And it turns out that when the walls came down, one of the first things they did was ask me about publishing in hard cover. So it is out there. And then I was interviewed a few years back by the Moscow Times and they said how’s it feel to know that every Russian school child has to read your Teenage Survival Guide? I said slightly terrifying. But that’s kinda cool.
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Oddly, there’s a lot more to this book than meets the eye. It gets passed around, it’s in libraries, it costs a lot of money to buy a copy if you can get your hands on it. And in Russia, in Russia, it’s mandatory reading for every school kid. Mandatory. They got their hands on a copy, years ago, as the Soviet Union, and released it in installments in the only Soviet teen magazine. This was in the 80s- I had no idea! I thought they were kidding when I heard about it. Because my grandfather was a persecuted Russian Jew who escaped the country, so how ironic is that?

And it turns out that when the walls came down, one of the first things they did was ask me about publishing in hard cover. So it is out there. And then I was interviewed a few years back by the Moscow Times and they said how’s it feel to know that every Russian school child has to read your Teenage Survival Guide? I said slightly terrifying. But that’s kinda cool.

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