Potato Dreams of America
Real life is stranger than fiction
A warmly comedic yet poignant autobiographical journey of a gay boy and his unconventional mother escaping Soviet collapse for American reinvention, balancing humor with genuine emotional stakes.
A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the 90s.
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