An audacious, mesmerising novel of love in the post-communist diaspora, written with the dramatic tension of Euripidean tragedy and the dreamlike quality of a David Lynch film
Yelena Moskovich was born in the former USSR and emigrated to the USA with her family as Jewish refugees in 1991. She studied theatre at Emerson College and at the Lecoq School of Physical Theatre in Paris. Her plays and performances have been produced in the US, Canada, France and Sweden. Her first novel The Natashas was published by Serpent's Tail in 2016. She has also written for New Statesman and Paris Review and in French for Mixt(e) Magazine, won the 2017 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize in 2017 and was a curator for the 2018 Los Angeles Queer Biennial. She lives in Paris.
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