Author Description

every So Often A New Writer Appears Who Is Wiser Than Her Years Would Suggest, Whose Flesh-and-blood Characters Embody More Experience Than A Young Writer Could Possible Know. Sana Krasikov Is One Of Those Writers. Her First Published Story Appeared In The new Yorker, Her Second In the atlantic Monthly’s fiction Issue. one More Year Is Her Debut Collection, Made Up Of Stories Of People Who Hold Out Hope, Despite The Odds, That Life Will Be Kind To Them. the Characters Who Populate Krasikov’s Stories Are Mostly Women–some Are New To America; Some Still Live In The Former Soviet Union, In Georgia Or Russia; And Some Have Returned To Russia To Find A Country They Barely Recognize And People They No Longer Understand. Mothers Leave Children Behind; Children Abandon Their Parents. Almost All Of Them Look To Love To Repair Their Lives, And When Love Isn’t Really There, They Attempt To Make Do With Relationships That Substitute For Love. like Jhumpa Lahiri And Zz Packer, Two Writers Whose Fully-realized Characters Drive Their Fiction, Sana Krasikov Is An Exhilarating Talent Whose First Collection Puts Her On The Map With Today's Most Talented Young Authors. the New York Times - Gaiutra Bahadur one More Year Is Chiefly About Exile And Fidelity…krasikov Once Worked As A Reporter For A Newspaper In New Hampshire, And She Knows Both The Emotional Texture And The Legal Minutiae Of The Lives Of Immigrants The Way A Journalist Might. (after The Waitress's Husband Hits Her, A Lawyer Tells Her She Can Petition For Resident Papers As A Domestic Violence Victim.) But Krasikov's Cast Of Exiles, Refugees And Repatriates Are Also, More Fundamentally, People Moving In And Out Of Love—or What Passes For It. She Has Written A Sensitive Book About The Economics Of Relationships: How They Can Become Subtle Transactions By People Trying To Pull Off The Trick Of Occupying More Than One Place And More