When Clea returns to London with her new Russian husband, she is surprised to see him become even more eccentric.

“13 short pieces…pungently convey the effects of growing up under a totalitarian regime.”                       .—Publishers Weekly

A new book of poems by Nina Kossman. “When the mythological and personal meet, something transforms for this reader…” —Ilya Kaminsky

Original poetry by Nina Kossman, accompanied by a selection of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated from Russian by Kossman. “The sea is a postcard,” writes Nina Kossman. There is both something elemental in this vision and—iron-tough.”
—Ilya Kaminsky