Description
A stunning, novel-in-verse exploration of LGBTQ+ life in the shadow of the former Soviet blocOn the longest night of a milk-dark Berlin winter, a doomed couple sit side by side on their bed. Both fled the Soviet Union as children, the narrator from Ukraine, and her girlfriend from lights are off. Neither their silence, a century of Ukrainian and Russian history resurfaces: forgotten literary characters, Yiddish maxims, contraband jokes, LGBT life in the post-Soviet bloc, Jewish diaspora to Israel, beauty vlogs, shaken sanity, hidden messages in Russian pop music, resistance in Odessa, Moscow club raids, and the death of a beloved requiem inside the narrator’s head circles the question pinned within the darkness: What does it mean to hold onto Nadezhda, whose name means “hope”? And is holding it enough?
Author: Yelena Moskovich
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 1/13/2026
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65 lbs
Size: 8.4″ H x 5.4″ L x 0.8″ W
ISBN: 9781938603518
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