The Longest Road: Heal­ing Across Gen­er­a­tions is a deeply emo­tion­al and vul­ner­a­ble mem­oir trac­ing four gen­er­a­tions of Sovi­et Jew­ish women whose lives were shaped by sur­vival, sac­ri­fice, and silence. When Sasha Perelman’s fam­i­ly fled the USSR in 1979 as reli­gious refugees, they car­ried more than lug­gage. They car­ried the invis­i­ble wounds of a peo­ple forced to sup­press their iden­ti­ty, faith, and voice across decades. Root­ed in the spe­cif­ic expe­ri­ence of Sovi­et Jew­ish immi­gra­tion to Amer­i­ca, this book explores what it means to inher­it a lega­cy of per­se­cu­tion and what it takes to final­ly release its hold. Through a sacred plant-med­i­cine cer­e­mo­ny in the Mex­i­can jun­gle, Sasha enters the unchart­ed ter­ri­to­ry of her own inher­i­tance, con­fronting her mother’s death, her grandmother’s hard­ened love, and the intri­cate web of moth­er-daugh­ter bonds passed down through gen­er­a­tions of Jew­ish women who sur­vived by going numb. The Longest Road is a reck­on­ing with his­to­ry, fam­i­ly, and self, ask­ing what Jew­ish resilience tru­ly costs and what heal­ing looks like when an entire lin­eage has learned to endure rather than feel.