0553298690 spine creasing, some edge wear; In the near future, the debt-laden U.S. owns a technology that renders it ''the world's best-defended Third World country.'' The only real outer-space planning is in Common Europe, so young American ''space cadet'' Jerry Reed goes to work in Paris. He falls in love with and marries Soviet career bureaucrat Sonya Gagarin and the story jumps ahead 20 years, blending world events with a focus on their family. Sonya's star has risen with the Euro-Russians' while Jerry has been stymied by pervasive anti-Americanism. Daughter Franja has her father's space fever and enrolls in a Russian space school; son Bob, fiercely curious about an earlier, admired America before it was run by xenophobic ''Gringos,'' enters Berkeley. Ten years later the U.S. is a pariah, Euro-Russia the pet of the civilized world and the Reeds scattered--politics forced Jerry and Sonya's divorce, Franja speaks only to her mother and Bob is trapped in ''Festung Amerika.'' -- Publisher's Weekly
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