Cirie is a novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 by Mildred Savage

Mildred Savage

Mildred Spitz Savage was an American author known for her best-selling novel, Parrish.-Biography and career:...

. The novel was originally published in paperback by Writers Club Press in 2002.

Plot summary

In this sweeping historical novel of the Russian Revolution, Cirie, clever and beautiful, uses her cool wits and sensuous charm first to make her way among the high nobility of the Romanov world, and then to survive and escape the Revolution that utterly destroys her world. Later in New York during the Great Depression, she is sustained by the survival skills she forged as imperial Russia fell apart. A huge novel of love and deception, chaos and perseverance, in the most shattering upheaval the world has ever known, Cirie is the story of a true 20th century heroine and the times that produced her.