Finding Katarina M.
(Book)

Natalie March is a successful surgeon enjoying a busy life in Washington DC. As her demanding career has left little time for friends or romance, her deepest relationship is with her mother, Vera March, a Russian immigrant and MS patient confined to a rehab. Vera is haunted by the fact that her Ukrainian parents were sent to the gulag when she was just a baby. Natalie would do anything to heal her mother's pain: it's the one wound she cannot mend. When a young Russian dancer named Saldana Tarasova comes to Natalie's office claiming to be her cousin, and offering details that only a family member would know, Natalie must face a surprising truth: her grandmother, Katarina Melnikova, is still very much alive.