Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope Review

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Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope ReviewSwimming in the Daylight is a remarkable and inspiring book. I think it is fundamentally a story about the profound power that can arise from deep and meaningful friendships. Lisa Paul's memoir of her years living in Moscow reminds us that when we take the time to truly connect with others, we give ourselves and our friends the gift of hope and the courage to act on our faith, ideals, and beliefs. Lisa Paul transports the reader to the Soviet Union of the 1980s when a repressive government silenced many voices. Because Lisa wrote the book from such a personal perspective, I actually felt her friends' fear and anxiety as she described their lives. Her narrative allows her friends to be heard in a way they were not when they lived in Moscow.
In the end, Swimming in the Daylight put me in awe of peoples' capacity for love, compassion, hope and active social justice. Lisa Paul had a truly remarkable experience in Moscow and, later, in the U.S. as she crusaded for human rights and dignity. We are lucky she chose to share her story.Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope Overview
'A powerful memoir about hope, courage, and faith. . . . The lessons of this book are urgently needed today."-Dr. Alan Mittleman, Chair Department of Jewish Thought, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
There is always some part of the world where human rights are trampled and oppression quashes the human spirit. In the 1980s, it was the Soviet Union. In Swimming in the Daylight, Lisa Paul, a Catholic-American student living in Moscow in the early '80s, details how she grew to understand the perverse reality of the pre-Gorbachev Soviet regime as her friendship with her Russian-language tutor, Inna Kitrosskaya Meiman, blossomed. Inna, a Soviet-Jewish dissident and refusenik, was repeatedly denied a visa to receive life-saving cancer treatment abroad. The refusal was an apparent punishment imposed on both her and her Jewish husband, Naum, for his participation in the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group-the lone group fighting for human rights in the U.S.S.R.Before Lisa returned to the United States, she promised Inna she would do all she could to get her out of Moscow. But Lisa was one person, what could she possibly do that would make a difference? Inspired by her faith and rights as an American, Lisa staged a hunger strike, held press conferences, and galvanized American politicians to demand Inna's immediate release. In this heartfelt, compassionate, and inspiring narrative, Lisa brings the reader along with her as she learns indelible lessons from her heroic teacher. Inna's greatest lesson-that it is possible to swim through treacherous waters, in daylight, not in despair-is as relevant today as it was during the final years of the Soviet regime. At a time when international strife seems insurmountable and worries at home seem to paralyze, this story will teach people everywhere that it is the courage inside, not the chaos outside, that defines us. 20 color photographs

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