Nine months after she was conceived as a way to contribute to population growth, a kommunalka child was harvested from a cabbage patch, like every other Soviet child. She grew up in a bilingual family in a communal home, searching for a place in the world as the Soviet way of life slowly collapsed in the face of the Western liberties and luxuries.This groundbreaking collection of funny, touching, embarrassing and absurd illustrated micro-memoirs takes a unique look at life in the last decade of the Soviet Union through the eyes of a Latvian child.