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The author traces the story of the disappearance of her immigrant grandfather Mikhail Yeyegov. His son Christopher’s life during and after the Depression in Buffalo, New York, and his eventual marriage and children and the devastating effects of his perceived abandonment by his father on three generations of family. A lifelong, 70-year search for Mikhail eventually solved. Follow Christopher’s daughter, the author, to the KGB building in St. Petersburg, Russia to find where Mikhail was incarcerated and executed in 1937, and why. Who was Mikhail? This is the story of the generational trauma of abandonment, the people who helped find the truth and the resolution and forgiveness at the very end of Christopher’s life.