Rose: A Novel

The final book in Oksana Vasyakina’s acclaimed autofiction trilogy that began with Wound and Steppe, Rose tells the story of Vasyakina’s lineage, and the intimacy, pain, and resilience that define womanhood in a patriarchal world

As a young writer living in Moscow, Oksana Vasyakina tries to solve the riddle of her aunt Svetlana’s short and apparently tragic life. Svetlana was the black sheep of a family of hardworking, hard-drinking women in Siberia. Kind but passionate and destructive, she ...