The Banality of Gender-Based Violence: On Nataliya Meshchaninova’s “Stories of a Life” and Yevgenia Belorusets’s “Lucky Breaks”
Sarah McEachern reviews newly translated novels by Nataliya Meshchaninova and Yevgenia Belorusets.
Sarah McEachern is a reader and writer in Brooklyn, New York. Her recent creative work has been published in Catapult, Pigeon Pages, The Pacifica Review, Entropy, and The Spectacle. Her reviews, interviews, and criticism have been published or are forthcoming in Rain Taxi, The Ploughshares Blog, Pen America, BOMB, Full Stop, The Believer, and The Rumpus.
Sarah McEachern reviews newly translated novels by Nataliya Meshchaninova and Yevgenia Belorusets.
THIS PIECE APPEARS IN THE TRENDING ISSUE OF THE LARB QUARTERLY JOURNAL, NO. 30.
Two newly translated novels by Bosnian authors explore the intersections of family life and national identity.