The book flashes back to Prague, in the nineteen-eighties, when Dagmar Dlouhá, Thea's mother, penned a series of popular children's books starring her daughter-or rather, a fully actualized Eastern Bloc version of Thea...
As an adult, Thea processes her childhood trauma by barring her friends from moving forward, down the aisle or elsewhere, as if progress were her Cold War nemesis or romantic rival.
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