Good Citizens Need Not Fear
FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Bang-on brilliant." --Miriam Toews
"Luminous" --Yann Martel
"Outstanding." --Anthony Doerr
"Bright, funny, satirical and relevant. . . . A new talent to watch!" --Margaret Atwood (via Twitter)
This brilliant and bitingly funny novel-in-stories, set in and around a single crumbling apartment building in Soviet-era Ukraine, heralds the arrival of a major new talent.
A cast of unforgettable characters--citizens of the small industrial town of Kirovka--populate Maria Reva's ingeniously entwined tales that span the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989. Weaving the strands of the narrative together is an unforgettable, chameleon-like young woman named Zaya:…
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February 9, 2021MARIA REVA was born in Ukraine and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has an MFA in fiction and playwriting from the Michener Center at the University of Texas. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories (2017 and 2019), McSweeney's and Granta. She currently lives in Vancouver, and also works as an opera librettist.