Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Your Presence Is Mandatory

Your Presence Is Mandatory

Vasilyuk, Sasha

Paperback

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 1639737251
ISBN13: 9781639737253
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: Dec 16 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.85 Depth: 8.88
Language: English

Winner of the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Gold Medal Winner for the 94th Annual California Book Awards Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about the price of secrecy, the weight of lies, and one man's drive to protect his family from his past.

Ukraine, 2007. War veteran Yefim Shulman was beloved by his children, wife, and coworkers. But in the days after his death, his widow, Nina, finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase. Yefim had a lifelong secret, and his confession forces Nina and her children to reassess the husband, father, and grandfather they thought they knew and the bonds they'd formed with him and each other.

Following one family over the course of 70 years and three generations, Sasha Vasilyuk shines a light into the shadowy corners of a marriage marred by secrecy and the sacrifices people make to survive. Compassionate, gripping, and intimate, Your Presence Is Mandatory is at once a historical epic, an engrossing family saga, and an astute examination of morality, survival, hope, and love (Lara Prescott).

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Vasilyuk, Sasha

View All

Also in

Historical Fiction

View All