For years Joan has been trying to forget her past, to find peace and satisfaction in her role as wife and mother.
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After playing a leading role in his celebrated defection, Joan bowed out of the spotlight for good, heartbroken by Arslan and humbled by her own modest career.
Few in her drowsy California suburb know her thrilling history: as a young American ballerina in Paris, she fell into a doomed, passionate romance with Soviet dance superstar Arslan Rusakov.
For years Joan has been trying to forget her past, to find peace and satisfaction in her role as wife and mother