Panic in a Suitcase,  a novel by Yelena Akhtiorskaya

The Namertovs left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a huge sense of finality, only to find tha the divide between the old world and the new is not nearly as clear-cut as they thought. 

The Scent of Pine, a novel by Lara Vapnyar

Though Lena is only thirty-eight, she find herself in the grip of a midlife crisis. She feels out of place in her adopted country, her career has stalled, and her marriage has tumbled into a spiral of apathy and distrust—it seems impossible she will ever find happiness again. 

A Replacement Life, a novel by Boris Fishman

Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, "disn't suffer in the exact way" he need to have suffered to qualify for the reparations to Holocuast survivors. But suffer he has....