Rose: A Novel

The final book in Oksana Vasyakina's acclaimed autofiction trilogy, Rose tells the story of her family’s lineage, interrogating the specific intimacy, pain, and resilience that come with womanhood in a patriarchal world

As a young writer living in Moscow, Oksana Vasyakina attempts to solve the riddle of her aunt’s brief and apparently tragic life. Svetlana was the black sheep of a family of hard-working, hard-drinking women in Siberia. Flighty but kind, indolent but exact, she spent her teen...