Katya Apekina

Jul 8, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Katya Apekina

This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. New York. Overlook Press. 2024. 308 pages. Katya Apekina’s Mother Doll is the strange, visceral story of Zhenia, a Russian American living in Los Angeles, whose marriage crumbles after Zhenia learns she is pregnant. While navigating the early stages of her pregnancy, Zhenia also receives a phone call from Paul, a psychic medium who begins channeling the spirit of Irina, Zhenia’s great-grandmother.

Apr 26, 2024 | thecreativeindependent.com | Katya Apekina

Katya Apekina novelist, screenwriter, translator Katya Apekina is a novelist, screenwriter, and translator. Her newest novel is . Her debut, , was named a Best Book of 2018 by , and others and was a finalist for the , a semifinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and and on the shortlist for Stanford Libraries’ 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Katya translated poetry and prose from Russian for (FSG, 2008), short-listed for the Best Translated Book Award.

Apr 25, 2024 | muthamagazine.com | Katya Apekina

To read a Q&A with Katya Apekina, go here. When her grandmother, still occasionally lucid half a year ago, asked Zhenia whether she loved Ben, Zhenia had said that he treated her really well. Her grandmother had wanted more than anything for Zhenia to get out into the world, to get away, and only now did it dimly occur to Vera Osipovna that maybe there was no getting away.

Mar 14, 2024 | largeheartedboy.com | Katya Apekina

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Katya Apekina’s novelMother Doll is a multi-generational drama both mesmerizing and inventively told.

Mar 11, 2024 | writersdigest.com | Katya Apekina

I started doing historical research for my novel before I even knew what I was writing, who the characters were, or anything else. I was in Mexico City, and I visited Trotsky’s house, where he had escaped from the Soviet Union and lived in exile before he was murdered. He did not make it into my book, not directly, but being able to see a physical space, preserved in this way, set my imagination on fire.