What Fiction are you reading this week, March 24, 2024?

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11. The Ukraine/Artem Chapeye

Short stories set between 2010-2018. Written on author’s phone literally from the front lines.

BBC nonfiction book of the year, 2018. But most stories are fiction.

Author’s travels by motorcycle.

Sneaking into Chernobyl area was understated scare.

Deep peasant farmer poverty. Systematic corruption. Fractured and fractious, divided by language and religion and culture almost village by village.

Amazing Zelenskyy has pulled them together.

Awkward translation. But beauty revealed after later reflection.

A necessary book.

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/08/1091769512/artem-chapeye-a-writer-fighting-in-ukrainian-army-on-his-love-story-for-his-coun

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Grocery store book on my library hold list.