Natasha is a story that takes place over the course of a single summer. It's the story of Mark Berman, a 16-year-old son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who grew up in the Toronto suburbs. When his uncle's uncle engages into an arranged marriage with a woman from Moscow, the woman and her fourteen-year-old daughter, Natasha, arrive in Canada. Mark, a slacker, is forced to accept responsibility for the unusual girl by his parents. He discovers that she had led a tumultuous and promiscuous life in Moscow. Between the two of them, a hidden and forbidden romance develops, with odd and disastrous implications for everyone involved.
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Natasha is a story that takes place over the course of a single summer. It's the story of Mark Berman, a 16-year-old son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who grew up in the Toronto suburbs. When his uncle's uncle engages into an arranged marriage with a woman from Moscow, the woman and her fourteen-year-old daughter, Natasha, arrive in Canada. Mark, a slacker, is forced to accept responsibility for the unusual girl by his parents. He discovers that she had led a tumultuous and promiscuous life in Moscow. Between the two of them, a hidden and forbidden romance develops, with odd and disastrous implications for everyone involved.
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