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By Kim Samek. Katya Apekina made her debut in 2018 with her stunning novel The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish —in which teenaged sisters Edie and Mae are sent to New York to live with their estranged father after their mother’s suicide attempt.
May 17, 2024 · 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.
Sep 26, 2018 · September 26, 20185:00 AM ET. By. Michael Schaub. Editor's note: This review includes a brief account of a character's suicide attempt. Katya Apekina's debut novel opens with two sisters at a...
May 14, 2024 · May 14, 2024. Katya Apekina. by Diana Ruzova. Katya Apekina is the author of two novels, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish (Two Dollar Radio) and her latest, Mother Doll (Abrams Books). Mother Doll is a ghost story. A historical dive into the Russian Revolution. A pearl necklace of intergenerational matrilineal trauma.
Mar 18, 2024 · BOOKS. Katya Apekina reconsidered her early experience as a Russian immigrant in writing her novel ‘Mother Doll’. The author and translator, who grew up in the Boston area, talks to the Globe...
Sep 17, 2018 · September 17, 2018. The following is from Katya Apekina's novel, The Deeper The Water The Uglier The Fish. After 16-year-old Edie finds her mother barely alive from a suicide attempt, she and her sister Mae are forced to move to New York to live with their estranged father.
Mar 18, 2024 · March 18, 2024. An interview with Katya Apekina about her new novel, "Mother Doll." I first fell in love with Katya Apekina’s writing a decade ago, when I read her short story about a girl who loses her best friend to the convent.
