Steppe

"A family history, a road trip through contemporary Russia, Steppe is as unflinching and capacious as the landscape from which it takes its name. Vasyakina is a rare truthsayer, a voice of her generation. I loved this." —Jessi Jezewska Stevens, author of Ghost Pains

"This is a gorgeously recursive book about daughters and fathers, about the unknowability. pain, and occasional tragedy of being fathered in the early twenty-first century, and the way we come to understand our own childhoods only as adults, when it's all too late. I don't think I've ever read anything quite like Steppe, and at times when I was reading it felt so real and heartbreaking I could hardly stand it." —Madeleine Watts, author of Elegy, Southwest

"In Vasyakina's prose, grief and isolation become luminous. When reading this dissociative and brilliant novel, one is reminded that to have a father is to inherit a fractured nation." —Zain Khalid, author of Brother Alive

"A family history, a road trip through contemporary Russia, Steppe is as unflinching and capacious as the landscape from which it takes its name. Vasyakina is a rare truthsayer, a voice of her generation. I loved this." —Jessi Jezewska Stevens, author of Ghost Pains

"This is a gorgeously recursive book about daughters and fathers, about the unknowability. pain, and occasional tragedy of being fathered in the early twenty-first century, and the way we come to understand our own childhoods only as adults, when it's all too late. I don't think I've ever read anything quite like Steppe, and at times when I was reading it felt so real and heartbreaking I could hardly stand it." —Madeleine Watts, author of Elegy, Southwest

"In Vasyakina's prose, grief and isolation become luminous. When reading this dissociative and brilliant novel, one is reminded that to have a father is to inherit a fractured nation." —Zain Khalid, author of Brother Alive