Free, by Lea Ypi

Lea Ypi is your perfect guide to '90s Albania. She brings to her memoir both current knowledge of political theory and incredible memories of her own family past. Ypi's writing is lively and often funny, her descriptions of childhood experiences and observations of family members and conversations are incredibly vivid and astute, and this book is one of the best remembrances I've come upon of that uncertain and chaotic era.