iron curtain

Alexander (8) gave me a book to read from his library of approximately 400 titles, The Wall, Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, by Peter Sís, an artist born in Czechoslovakia in 1949 and an American citizen since 1988. The book is a memoir filled with photographs of family and American rock band culture, numerous drawings from his youth, and a timeline of events in the place of birth. I recommend the book, which is entirely in English, to children who are good readers and to adults. The parents of Alexander are immigrants.