One of the
Books I reread at every new stage in my life.An out of print
biography of a man named Victor Herman. He followed his father from
Detroit to
Russia in 1931 to the
Ford factory there. Then he jumped from a
plane, the longest
freefall. He was called the Lindberg of Russia. When they came to mark it in the records books, he refused to be entered as a Russian, insisting he was an
American. For this he was incarcerated in a
gulag, exiled to
Siberia and spent 45 years saying that he was an American, that he was alive. After 45 years, he makes it home
His question? Who chooses for you?