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I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir

I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir

Yelchin, Eugene
Yelchin, Eugene

Hardcover

Young Adult Graphic NovelsYoung Adult Nonfiction

Publisher Price: $22.99

ISBN10: 1536215538
ISBN13: 9781536215533
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: Sep 16 2025
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature

An exceptional work: atmospherically illustrated and underpinned by strong but restrained feelings. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

In a stunning sequel to The Genius Under the Table, Eugene Yelchin's graphic memoir depicts his harrowing journey from Leningrad's underground art scene to a state-run Siberian asylum--and to eventual safety in the US.

No longer the creative little boy under his grandmother's table, Yevgeny is now a young adult, pursuing his artistic dreams under the constant threat of the KGB's stranglehold on Russia's creative scene. When a chance encounter with an American woman opens him up to a world of romance and possibility, Yevgeny believes he has found his path to the future--and freedom overseas. But the threat of being drafted into the military and sent to fight in Afghanistan changes everything in a terrible instant, and he takes drastic measures to decide his fate, leading to unthinkable consequences in a mental hospital. With bold art bringing a vivid reality to life, National Book Award Finalist and Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin's sequel to the acclaimed memoir The Genius Under the Table returns to Yevgeny's saga, balancing the terror and oppression of Soviet Russia with the author's signature charm and dark wit. I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This shines a stark spotlight on history while offering a poignant, nuanced, and powerfully resonant look at growing up in--and ultimately leaving--Cold War Russia in the early 1980s.

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