One More Year - Stories (Paperback)

Every so often a new writer appears who is wiser than her years would suggest, whose flesh-and-blood characters embody more experience than a young writer could know. Sana Krasikov is one of those writers. Her first published story appeared in "The New Yorker, " her second in the" Atlantic Monthly"'s" "fiction issue. "One More Year" is her debut collection, illuminating the lives of immigrants from across the terrain of a collapsed Soviet empire--people in search of love and the good life--forging new paths and sometimes retreading old ones. A man abandons Wall Street after eleven years to seek his fortune in his native Moscow, leaving his wife to make sense of this sudden reversal of their lives. A divorcee who boards with an older man finds herself an outsider among her more prosperous immigrant friends. A young wife from Central Asia struggles to break out of a polygamous marriage to a husband she still loves. A widow from Tbilisi, supporting her son from abroad, finds the boy a stranger when he visits her in Yonkers.
With novelistic scope, Krasikov captures the fates of people making their way in a world whose rules have changed. Full of emotional insight and compassion, these stories tap into universal aspirations that resonate beyond each character's connection with country or place. A work of astonishing maturity and human depth, "One More Year" puts Krasikov on the map with today's most talented authors.