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An important history for our era: the way the American dream went wrong for two immigrants and the problem that resulted. On April 15, 2013, two home made bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, eradicating three people and wounding more than 264 others. Within the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsarnaev passed on, and his younger sibling, Dzhokhar, was captured and ultimately recharged on 30 federal government counts. Yet long after the bombings and the terror they sowed, after all the testimony and question, everything we still haven't learned is the reason why. Why have the American fantasy go so wrong for two immigrants? How have such a problem come to cross? Acclaimed Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen is exclusively endowed with the background, access, and talents to tell the entire history. An immigrant herself who came to the Boston area with her family as an adolescent, she returned to the previous Soviet Union in her early on 20s and protected firsthand the transformations that were wracking her homeland and its own neighboring regions. It is there that the history of the Tsarnaev brothers truly starts, as descendants of ethnic Chechens deported to Central Asia in the Stalin era. Gessen follows the family in their futile attempts to make a life for themselves in a single war-torn locale after another and then, as new émigrés, in the looking-glass, absolutely disorienting world of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Most crucially, she reconstructs the struggle between assimilation and alienation that ensued for every of the brothers, incubating a dangerous sense of quest. And she traces how such a divide in identity can fuel the metamorphosis into a fresh variety of homegrown terrorist, with foot on American soil but sense of home elsewhere.
