Review: She thought her mother was a model, then found her in an old mail-order bride catalog

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Set us as preferred It’s never been a more terrifying time to be an undocumented immigrant in America.Despite countless protests and pushback, ICE agents continue to patrol the streets.

In July, Colombian immigrant Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Biddeford, Maine, during a routine traffic stop.But what about the white-passing undocumented immigrants that seem to slip through the system? The ones who blend in so seamlessly (despite the thick accents of some)? We forget they are also legally not supposed to be here.Specifically, those from Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union.

And what about those young, desperate women who suggestively posed for the camera as the Soviet Union collapsed all around them, hoping to be chosen by an American man?Book ReviewUngrateful Immigrant Daughter: A Memoir From the Child of a Mail-Order BrideBy Katya Suvorova Alcove Press: 352 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.Katya Suvorova’s searing debut memoir, “Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter: A Memoir from the Child of a Mail-Order Bride,” out Sept.29, is a heart-wrenching tale of immigration that pulls back the velvety red curtain to reveal one story behind the over-sexualized stereotypical post-Soviet mail-order bride narrative so ingrained in post-Cold War U.S.

culture.My own family legally immigrated to the U.S.from Soviet Belarus in the early 1990s.

I grew up with the Western media narrative that Eastern European women were submissive sex symbols, desperate for financial security.Some boys in school even assumed I was “easy” because I was Eastern European.Mostly told from a child’s point-of-view, Suvorova’s “Ungrateful” traces their journey in the ’90s from Russia to...