“Wound” is out now from Catapult.
It’s not a particularly easy time to tell stories about LGBTQ+ life in Russia , yet with her debut novel, Wound—a spare but memorable account of a young woman coming home from Moscow to bury her mother’s ashes—Siberian-born author Oksana Vasyakina manages the feat.
These writers wrote about people in situations impossible for survival. And I’m always surprised to see that any experience can be described in writing. Even an experience that’s painful and difficult to recall. I had Ginzburg and Shalamov in mind as I wrote my book. I relied on them, and I’ve tried not to let them down. What do you wish people understood better about the state of queerness in present-day Russia? This is a tough question to answer.
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