Elliott Holt

You Are One of Them Elliott Holt

Sarah and Jenny are best friends in Washington, DC, during the politically charged 1980s. As Cold War rhetoric escalates in1982, the two ten-year-olds write letters to Soviet premier Yuri Andropovasking for peace. Jennys letter gets a response, and Sarah is left behind whenher friend accepts the Kremlins invitation to visit and becomes aninternational media sensation. The girls friendship still hasnt mended whenJenny and her parents die in a plane crash in 1985. Ten years later, Sarah getsa letter suggesting that Jennys death might have been a hoax. In her search forthe truth, she delves into her personal Cold War history and attempts toseparate fact from propaganda.