What to Read When You Want to Experience Life Abroad
Katya Cengel shares a reading list to celebrate her new memoir, FROM CHERNOBYL WITH LOVE.
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Posts by: Katya Cengel
Rumpus Exclusive: “Journalists Invade Former Soviet Union”
The missionaries seemed concerned. I figured it was too late for that.
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The Cornbread Mafia by James Higdon
Katya Cengel reviews James Higdon’s THE CORNBREAD MAFIA today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Let Him Go by Larry Watson
Katya Cengel reviews Larry Watson’s LET HIM GO today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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“Life After Life,” by Kate Atkinson
When we are young every decision seems weighted with extra meaning. A teenager can trace the exact steps that lead from the missing of a ski trip to the life of an outcast. Not being allowed to date a certain boy means remaining single forever. The smallest thing changes their entire world, or so they […]
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There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s stories are not about dissidents or defectors. They are about something far more dangerous to the Soviet ideal: ordinary people.
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