Twin stories so gripping you will believe history itself can be rewritten. "A young Tsarina traveling towards tragedy and an aging Grand Duchess penniless and betrayed. Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Ariel Lawhon unfolds a complicated story with skill, style, and compassion." Every view is tantalizing, surprising, compelling, and utterly fascinating. The doors swish open here, then there, scenes sometimes racing by, sometimes drifting far into the mysterious lives of Anastasia Romanov and Anna Anderson. "I Was Anastasia is a wild train trip through time. Are we who we say we are, or who others believe us to be? It's a question that lingers long after the final page." " effortless, eloquent prose transports the reader via a dramatic, suspenseful and satisfying work of historical fiction.Lawhon brilliantly employs an inventive and non-linear dual narrative to tell the tale of how Anastasia would become Anna Anderson, or, perhaps, how Anna became Anastasia.In the end, what Lawhon does so convincingly is shake up our notion of identity.
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