This book is a narration by Svetlana Alliluyeva about fifteen years of her life in the United States, the story of a woman who broke with her father Joseph Stalin's homeland, searching and finding her place in the Western world after many years of loneliness and disappointments, reflections on the American way of life, about the people with whom fate brought the author. ... I could not keep up with the rest of the Kremlin children in any way and could not keep up with the ranks of those organizations to which we should have belonged since childhood. When I was dragged to the party at the university, at the age of twenty-three, I failed the exam on the history of the party, which was a great embarrassment for the party organization of the university. I always walked to my own, individualistic music, to a different rhythm…