<![CDATA[One More Year: Stories]]>

false <![CDATA[One More Year: Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1215463135m/2790156.jpg 2790156 3 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. 2815923 12 8 2008 One More Year: Stories total:103|5:19|4:44|3:29|2:10|1:1| 103 379 277 37 2 4 false false Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 13:40:22 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 13:52:10 -0800 2008
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review excerpt: book of eight short stories, focuses mainly on the disconnected lives of émigrés as they try to establish coherent identities for themselves in the US. She is an author of wry, and at times dazzling, talent. But despite their ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 16 11:12:59 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 11:13:34 -0700 2008

DATE: 7-16-08
TITLE: One More Year
AUTHOR: Krasikov, Sana
PUBLISHER: Spiegel & Grau
COPYRIGHT: 2008

RATING: 5 out of 5

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"In the metro I was met by the usual ocean of dour faces. My God, I thought, these people have chandeliers in their subways. They have sculpted arches and mosaics. Their...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 08:57:17 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 08:58:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Sep 12 13:12:46 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 05 08:43:44 -0800 2008 The New Yorker, so I was excited when I saw a review copy of One More Year by Sana Krasikov arrive in the mail. These tales of Russian and Georgian immigrants hoping for better lives through love in its myriad muddied forms are honest and ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jun 03 19:57:08 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 09:13:09 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 10:33:24 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 10:34:54 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 11:07:31 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 11:09:43 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Oct 24 07:28:20 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 07:35:36 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Mar 04 22:27:02 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 22:28:16 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Fri Dec 19 15:58:27 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 10:37:14 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 15:58:27 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Tue May 26 17:38:48 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 17:40:39 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 28 14:22:52 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 14:23:25 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2790156