Margarita Gokun Silver, I NAMED MY DOG PUSHKIN (AND OTHER IMMIGRANT TALES): Notes From a Soviet Girl on Becoming an American Woman

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Zibby is joined by writer and journalist Margarita Gokun Silver to talk about her collection of essays, I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales), which follows her journey from growing up in the Soviet Union to America. The two discuss the role Judaism played in Margarita's upbringing and family history in the USSR, how their time at Yale overlapped by a few years, and what efforts Margarita has made to parent her daughter differently than her parents raised her. Margarita also shares the heartbreaking news of her husband's passing and how this book stands as a testament to his life as well as her own.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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0:36.9	Hi.
0:37.4	Hi. Hi.
0:37.8	Hello.
0:38.5	Enjoy the show.
0:41.3	Margarita Gokin Silver is the author of I named my dog Pushkin and other immigrant tales,
0:46.6	notes from a Soviet girl on becoming an American woman.
0:49.7	Margarita is a freelance journalist, essayist, and novelist.
0:53.0	Her articles and essays have been published in the New York Times,
0:55.9	The Washington Post, The Guardian, BBC, NPR, and The Atlantic, among others. Welcome, Margarita.
1:01.8	Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss. I named my dog Pushkin
1:06.3	and other immigrant tales, notes from a Soviet girl on becoming an American woman.
1:11.8	Thank you.
1:12.7	Thank you for having me.
1:13.9	It's my pleasure.
1:19.8	And in the book, of course, we realized that your name really was Rita and that it was supposed to be Rivka and then it went to Rita and now even your parents refused to call
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