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The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Yelchin, Eugene
Yelchin, Eugene

Hardcover

Art & ArchitectureBiographySelf Help

Publisher Price: $16.99

ISBN10: 153621552X
ISBN13: 9781536215526
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: Oct 12 2021
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: Golden Kite
An Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Honor Winner

With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russia.

Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents' dream that he become a national hero when he doesn't even have his own room? He's not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table, and the doodles that could change everything. With equal amounts charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family.

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