{"product_id":"good-citizens-need-not-fear-stories-maria-reva","title":"Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories;  Maria Reva","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" data-testid=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eA brilliant and bitingly funny collection of stories united around a single crumbling apartment building in Ukraine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bureaucratic glitch omits an entire building, along with its residents, from municipal records. So begins Reva's \"darkly hilarious\" (Anthony Doerr) intertwined narratives, nine stories that span the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union. But even as the benighted denizens of 1933 Ivansk Street weather the official neglect of the increasingly powerless authorities, they devise ingenious ways to survive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \"Bone Music,\" an agoraphobic recluse survives by selling contraband LPs, mapping the vinyl grooves of illegal Western records into stolen X-ray film. A delusional secret service agent in \"Letter of Apology\" becomes convinced he's being covertly recruited to guard Lenin's tomb, just as his parents, not seen since he was a small child, supposedly were. Weaving the narratives together is the unforgettable, chameleon-like Zaya: a cleft-lipped orphan in \"Little Rabbit,\" a beauty-pageant crasher in \"Miss USSR,\" a sadist-for-hire to the Eastern Bloc's newly minted oligarchs in \"Homecoming.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"\u003e\n\u003cspan tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genrePlainText\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Text Text__body3 Text__subdued\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMarch 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eMARIA REVA was born in Ukraine and grew up in Canada. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center at the University of Texas. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney's, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere, and has won a National Magazine Award. She also works as an opera librettist.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookDetails\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"CollapsableList\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"FeaturedDetails\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263543886146,"sku":"","price":7.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/goodcitizens.jpg?v=1698980080","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/good-citizens-need-not-fear-stories-maria-reva","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}