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pp. 741, “After her father’s death, Svetlana shocked the world by defecting to the United States at the height of the Cold War — leaving behind two children. There, she found only more heartbreak. She married Wesley Peters, a member of Frank Lloyd Wright’s inner circle, and they had a child. But the marriage disintegrated. No matter how much distance she put between her past and her present, she could not undo the emotional and psychological damage her father had wrought. With access to FBI, CIA and Russian state archives, as well as with the close cooperation of Svetlana’s daughter, Sullivan has created a masterful biography that is epic in scope, yet narrated with remarkable intimacy. In this book, Sullivan cements her status as the pre-eminent literary biographer in Canada.”