Dina Krupskai͡a

"The time is 1946, the town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly...

"Dori -- samai︠a︡ mladshai︠a︡ v semʹe, Dori -- malyshka-krutyshka, potomu chto... u neë krepkie muskuly, polno boevykh ran, ona strashna v gneve i komanduet monstrom. No mozhno li bytʹ po-nastoi︠a︡shchemu krutoĭ, esli ri︠a︡dom net luchshego druga?"--