Mother Doll Foreword by Marcia Lucas at the intersection of madness

at the intersection of madness and creativity

first sunburn—every year older means another cycle of everyday experiences

Offering a reinterpretation of existing works or fitting into the framework of an international exchange

from fear to absorption to embarrassed relief

He produced a uniquely rich body of work

Mother Doll Foreword by Marcia Lucas at the intersection of madness*** BALCONES PRIZE FINALIST *** Prize winning author Katya Apekinas Mother Doll is a sharp, kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations of mothers and daughters Punctuated with Apekinas wry observations and wicked sense of humor (Los Angeles Times), Mother Doll is a family epic and meditation on motherhood, immigration, identity, and war. Apekinas second novel is not only a harrowing examination of