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Mother Winter: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Shalmiyev, Sophia

Book ID: 110458532
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Tongue: English
Weight: 344 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781501193088

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✦ Synopsis

"Vividly awesome and truly great." —Eileen Myles

"I love this gorgeous, gutting, unforgettable book."—Leni Zumas

"A rich tapestry of autobiography and meditations on feminism, motherhood, art, and culture, this book is as intellectually satisfying as it is artistically profound. A sharply intelligent, lyrically provocative memoir." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

An arresting memoir equal parts refugee-coming-of-age story, feminist manifesto, and meditation on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and art that follows award-winning writer Sophia Shalmiyev's flight from the Soviet Union, where she was forced to abandon her estranged mother, and her subsequent quest to find her.
Russian sentences begin backward, Sophia Shalmiyev tells us on the first page of her striking, lyrical memoir, Mother Winter. To understand the end of her story we must go back to her beginning.

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