Memoir cravings

After talking with a friend who grew up in a communist country until age 9 or so at a dinner party, I had a deep craving to read a memoir of a woman who experienced communism, who could write about it in terms of what every day life was like. I was a little doubtful I could find such a specific thing, but I tried, using google. I typed in words like "memoir," "woman," and "communism."

Well, guess what. I found the perfect book. I can hardly believe it. It's called How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, by Slavenka Draculic. I'm only a few pages in but already so into it. I also got MFK Fisher's An Alphabet for Gourmets, which I can't wait to read... and I'll be reading both while sitting by the pool in Florida with my grandmother, mom and sister for the next few days! Thanks for all your emails and comments of support while I've been stressing out lately!