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My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner

By Meir Shalev

224 pages; Schocken

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The Israeli author remembers his family matriarch's love-hate affair with both dirt and her electric "svieeperrr."

— Karen Holt

Published 09/19/2011

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