He is a writer from Cambridge, Massachusetts with Ukrainian roots. His short fiction has appeared in Sonora Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, and New England Review. Before writing The Sunflower Boys, he taught English to primary schoolers in central Ukraine and worked with refugee families in Europe and the United States.
At Electric Lit Wachman tagged ten Ukrainian books that show the many sides of a nation. One title on the list:
Love Life by Oksana Lutsyshyna, translated by Nina MurrayRead about the other entries on the list.
In Love Life, love itself is a higher power that is inextricable from pain. Yora, a Ukrainian immigrant, lives on an unnamed American peninsula identical to Florida. Disoriented, vulnerable, and highly empathetic, she falls in love with Sebastian, an actor who leads her on until revealing that she is only one of his many lovers.Yora’s life disintegrates when her relationship with Sebastian ends. She contracts a mysterious illness, and her grief reveals itself through a series of bizarre dreams. Through Yora’s descent, Lutsyshyna examines the experience of being a Ukrainian woman abroad and the existential suffering inherent to post-Soviet womanhood.
--Marshal Zeringue
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