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A heartfelt and deftly advised coming-of-age history, Mannequin Female catches the bleakness of Soviet Russia and the hopeful turmoil of adolescence. "An ideal little figure," he says. "Our mannequin young lady." She understands who mannequin ladies are. They are in her grandmother's Working Female publications, modeling flouncy dresses and berets. "Bend," he instructs her, and she does indeed, so pliant, so obedient. Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, temperamental Anechka and soft-hearted, absent-minded Misha. Young Jewish intellectuals, they teach books at a Moscow institution, run a dilemma golf club, and dabble in politics radicalism. Kat recognizes herself as their heir and ally. However when she's diagnosed with rapidly-progressing scoliosis, the trajectory of her life changes, and she confirms herself at a different establishment - a school-sanatorium for children with vertebral ailments. Restricted to a brace, ornamented by unsympathetic peers, Kat embarks over a quest to show that she can be as exceptional as her parents: a beauty, an intellect, and free nature despite her physical restrictions, her Jewishness, and her suspicion that her favorite parents are actually flawed. Can a girl with a crooked spine really be considered a mannequin young lady, her parents' take great pride in and her doctors' and professors' glory? Or will she end up being something a lot more regular - and, therefore, more her own? An memorable heroine, Kat must find the courage to face the entire world and liberate, not only of her steel brace but of all constraints that bind her.
