“Galina called to say she had bought me a first-class ticket to Moscow, and then she said that my brother was dead.”
“In 1935, eminent scientists from around the world converged in London for the Second International Neurological Congress, an event that would one day spiral down to a small point: an apartment in Roxbury.”
“On September 1 the Second World War started in Europe with Germany’s unprovoked attack on Poland.”