A Perfect Explanation

Finalist for the Desmond Elliott PrizeA “superb debut”* novel—based on the story of the author’s grandmother—following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and...

Maybe Esther: A Family Story

An inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving literary debut that pieces together the fascinating story of one woman’s family across twentieth-century Russia, Ukraine,...

Maybe Esther

The poignant, searching, haunting story of one family’s entanglement with twentieth-century historyKatja Petrowskaja’s family story is impossible to untangle from the history...