The main theme of the novel "Sunflower Riot" is the meeting on American soil of two generations of the Russian intelligentsia - the emigration of the 1940s with the emigration of the 1970s. "Their mutual gravitation, hopes and disappointments, tenderness and bitterness, epiphanies and bewilderments, thirst to speak out and fear of being unheard - everything is woven by the writer's masterful hand into the fate of the main characters and fills the narrative with genuine drama."