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With settings that range from the Cuban Missile Crisis and Soviet-era Perestroika to present-day San Francisco, Like Water and Other Stories, the first English-language collection from Leningrad-born author Olga Zilberbourg, looks at family and childrearing in ways both unsettling and tender, with characters who grapple with complicated legacies— of state, parentage, displacement, and identity. A unique portrayal of motherhood, of immigration and adaptation, and an inside account of life in the Soviet Union and its dissolution.
Olga Zilberbourg has published four collections of stories in Russia. She serves as a consulting editor at Narrative Magazine and as a co-facilitator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop.