with her husband and daughter, where she is an assistant professor of creative writing at Auburn University. She is also a fiction editor at The Bare Life Review, a journal of immigrant and refugee literature.
Kuznetsova's newest novel is Something Unbelievable.
[Q&A with Maria Kuznetsova; The Page 69 Test: Something Unbelievable]
At Electric Lit the author tagged seven books about the burdens and blessings of ancestral legacy, including:
The Nesting Dolls by Alina AdamsRead about another entry on the list.
The Nesting Dolls chronicles the lives of several generations of courageous women in one Russian Jewish family. The novel begins with Zoe,an American-born child of Soviet heritage preparing for her great-grandparents’ anniversary party. It transitions to the story of her great-grandmother Alyssa’s own mother, who was in a Soviet gulag in the 1930s, where she found herself in a surprising romantic entanglement after her husband was allowed to leave. Present-day Zoe is trying to find herself in her career and is torn in her affections between the more suitable man and the one her heart really wants; as Zoe makes her decision, it’s obvious that her great-great grandmother’s story of heartbreak and survival resonated with her.
My Book, The Movie: The Nesting Dolls.
The Page 69 Test: The Nesting Dolls.
--Marshal Zeringue
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