Yelena Akhtiorskaya was born in Odessa and raised in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and is the recipient of a Posen Fellowship in fiction. Her writing has appeared in n+1, the New Republic, Triple Canopy, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.
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A dazzling debut novel about a immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream In this tale of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the experience of a single family artfully reflects th... SEE MORE