Like Water & Other Stories by Olga Zilberbourg

“Plots center on identity reconstruction after life changes: moving to a different country, becoming a parent, or publishing a story. Zilberbourg portrays the truth and consequences of paths not taken,” Lanie Tankard in World Literature Today

With settings that range from the Cuban Missile Crisis and Soviet-era Perestroika to present-day San Francisco, Like Water & Other Stories, the first English-language collection from Leningrad-born author Olga Zilberbourg, looks at family and childrearing in ways both unsettling and tender, and characters who grapple with complicated legacies—of state, parentage, displacement, and identity. Like Water & Other Stories is a unique portrayal of motherhood, of immigration and adaptation, and an inside account of life in the Soviet Union and its dissolution.

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