**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

As her husband is imprisoned and their house overrun with unruly partisan soldiers, Luba finds herself on the run with four small children, her mother-in-law, and epileptic sister-in-law. When murderous Bolsheviks infiltrate the city of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur in far eastern Siberia in 1920, Luba’s comfortable, upper class life is upended overnight. Pigsties, abandoned warehouses, opium dens are just a few of the places the group seeks refuge as they try to elude capture and stay alive. The little-known history of this exotic time and place is seen through the eyes of a reluctant heroine grappling with adversity and loss during the dangerous political chaos following the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II.