Nadezhda in the Dark Sports her joy transforms to fear

her joy transforms to fear

and the inescapability of fate

and the complicated journey of finding home

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Over the course of a summer spent in their childhood home on the Japanese coast

Nadezhda in the Dark Sports her joy transforms to fearA stunning, novel in verse exploration of LGBTQ+ life in the shadow of the former Soviet bloc On 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 Russia. The lights are off. Neither speak. In their silence, a century of Ukrainian and Russian history resurfaces: forgotten literary characters, Yiddish maxims,