Bottled Goods: A Novel

Longlisted for the
2019 Women’s Prize, this poignant, lyrical novel is set in 1970s Romania during
Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime—and depicts childhood, marriage,
family, and identity in the face of extreme obstacles.

Alina yearns for freedom. She and her husband Liviu
are teachers in their twenties, living under the repressive regime of Communist
dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in the Socialist Republic of Romania in the 1970s. But after her
brother-in-law defects, Alina and Liviu fall ...