The epiphany of an American girl, generations removed from the homeland of her paternal ancestors, who spends a year [1993-1994] in the newly independent Slovak Republic, balancing between being an Americanka and a Slovenka and discovering in the end that perhaps she is neither.

A rollicking personal memoir dealing with coming of age angst, teen age love, theology, gender roles, cuisine, folklore, mythology, history, politics, linguistics, ethnic identity and national self determination.

Intelligent, hilarious, perceptive and entertaining with fascinating insights into the re-emergence of a nation in post-soviet Eastern Europe. All of this is capped off with an appendix of Slovak culinary delights.

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