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Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a World War II veteran with a secret that could land him in the Gulag, and his family who are forced to live in the shadow of all he has not told…
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I met Sasha Vasilyuk, the author of the family memoir Your Presence is Mandatory, just after she found her agent and was shopping her book to publishers. I'm so glad that unlike so many of its characters, this book found a home! This painful story of a family alternately rooted and uprooted in Ukraine, Germany, and Russia during and after World War II, and of a patriarch harboring dark secrets in an effort to spare those he loves, helped me to understand a great deal about today's conflict. How did Ukrainians who were occupied or captured by the German Army…
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