Did you love yesterday‘s podcast interview with Sophia Shalmiyev? Then enter to win her gorgeous book! All the details: bit.ly/FBCgiveaway35 #giveaway
Did you love yesterday‘s podcast interview with Sophia Shalmiyev? Then enter to win her gorgeous book! All the details: bit.ly/FBCgiveaway35 #giveaway
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Sophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to America in 1990. She is a feminist writer and painter living in Portland with her two children. Shalmiyev‘s work has appeared in Literary Hub, The Rumpus, Portland Review and other publications. Mother Winter is her first book.
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We're giving away a copy of Mother Winter at bit.ly/FBCgiveaway35
I may have described the writing as “a postmodern fever dream.” 🤷🏻♀️
Mother Winter by Sophia Shalmiyev from Simon Books is one of the most memorable and interesting memoirs I have ever read. She cuts through the bullshit and simultaneously maintains the poetic essence of the narrative. It is one of the few books I can't stop thinking about. Read my review of this marvelous memoir at
https://onthebl.org/2019/04/16/mother-winter/
5/5🌟 A Gutting, Poetic and Brilliant Memoir!
Memoirs like this affirm why Memoir is my favorite genre!
The way Shalmiyev has constructed her life story is so alluring. How she grew up without a mother and the emptiness and longing that created to then becoming a mother herself, with reflections on her tramatic childhood and her journey of emigrating to America with her neglectful father.
One of the best memoirs I have ever read.
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