Nadezhda in the Dark Voice Nate Lippens

Nate Lippens

she settled in Los Angeles

until the dreams start

such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet champion Denis Diderot

Nadezhda in the Dark Voice Nate LippensA stunning, novel in verse exploration of LGBTQ+ life in the shadow of the former Soviet blocOn the longest night of a milk dark Berlin winter, a doomed couple sit side by side on their bed. Both fled the Soviet Union as children, the narrator from Ukraine, and her girlfriend from Russia. The lights are off. Neither speak. In their silence, a century of Ukrainian and Russian history resurfaces: forgotten literary characters, Yiddish maxims, contraband