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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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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

Paperback

Art & ArchitectureBiographyGeneral Juvenile Nonfiction

Publisher Price: $8.99

ISBN10: 1536236241
ISBN13: 9781536236248
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: May 21 2024
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Yelchin delivers a darkly humorous slice-of-life account of growing up in the Soviet Union. . . . Humorous, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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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