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Article: 'CAKES' SLICE OF A RESILIENT LIFE FAMILY'S ENDURANCE UNDER COMMUNIST RULE TALE OF ATTITUDES.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- November 26, 2004
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Byline: Dolores Derrickson, Special To The News
Memoirs generally fall into three categories: fascinating, boring or self-indulgent. Dominika Dery's memoir, The Twelve Little Cakes, intermingles all three elements, but succeeds because it gives reader an unusual slice-of-life view of what it was like growing up in Communist Czechoslovakia in the 1970s.
Even though the story is told through the eyes of Dery as a little girl, Twelve Cakes gives readers a sophisticated glimpse of a happy, well-adjusted family loving each other and making the best of things while living under constant Communist oppression.
That this family could work hard, enjoy the ...