My Grandmother's Braid

From the acclaimed author of The Hottest Dishes Of The Tartar Cuisine “a cruel comic romp ends as a surprisingly winning story of hardship and resilience” (The New Yorker).

Max lives with his grandparents in a residential home for refugees in Germany. When his grandmother—a terrifying, stubborn matriarch and a former Russian primadonna—moved them from the Motherland it was in search of a better life. But she is not at all pleased with how things are run in Ge...