What does Thanksgiving look like from Russia, Ukraine, or a small town in South Dakota? For our first Brain Drain Thanksgiving, writer Maria Osep’yants reflects on Russian harvest holidays and global parallels, while our team shares their own memories, foods, and reasons to be grateful.
When Maria was a teenager in Makhachkala, America arrived through a strange detective series, battered VHS tapes and a Russian American novelist named Nabokov. In this essay she traces how Twin Peaks and Laura Palmer shaped her idea of the United States long before she ever set foot here.
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