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Apr 26, 2024 · Novelist Katya Apekina discusses how she researches her writing, how to balance family with creative life, and how to face rejection. Writing , Film , Translation , Beginnings , Collaboration , Family , Failure
May 14, 2024 · Her interviews, reviews, essays, and articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, LAist, BOMB, Flaunt, Oprah Daily, New York Magazine’s The Cut, and other publications. Katya Apekina is a novelist, screenwriter, and translator. Her new novel, Mother Doll, is out now.
6 days ago · Katya Apekina, author of critically acclaimed The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, opens her newest novel, Mother Doll, with a nesting set of characters linked by familial ties and the weight of generational inheritance. Zhenia, a medical translator in Los Angeles, finds herself pregnant.
Apr 25, 2024 · Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends: Novelist Katya Apekina on Russia, Motherhood, and Mother Doll. To read an excerpt from Mother Doll, go here. The bright-yellow cover of Katya Apekina’s acclaimed sophomore novel Mother Doll is an extreme close-up of a Russian nesting doll. The dolls play no concrete role in the book, but they are a perfect ...
May 8, 2024 · * A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 Selected By * The Millions * Chicago Review of Books * Hey Alma * Stylecaster * And Many More! * Prize-winning author Katya Apekina’s Mother Doll is a sharp and visceral nesting doll of a novel, about four generations of mothers and daughters and the inherited trauma cast by Russian history. “A profoundly moving story . . . Strange, wild, offbeat, and ...
Apr 30, 2024 · 12 hours ago |. By Alexandra Popoff, Yaacov Ro’i, George Schultz, Katya Apekina. | Jewish Book Council. Growing up as a Russian immigrant in Boston, I memorized a lot of poetry. It was a common practice in the Soviet Union, part of all school curriculums, and my parents wanted to pass it on to me even though they ...
Apr 25, 2024 · To read a Q&A with Katya Apekina, go here. When her grandmother, still occasionally lucid half a year ago, asked Zhenia whether she loved Ben, Zhenia had said that he treated her really well. Her grandmother had wanted more than anything for Zhenia to get out into the world, to get away, and only now did it dimly occur to Vera Osipovna that ...
