A biography of a chance miracle
Малярчук, Таня, 1983- author (Author), Mali︠a︡rchuk, Tani︠a︡, Zenia Tompkins (Translator) / Tani︠a︡ Mali︠a︡rchuk (Author), Tani︠a︡ Mali︠a︡rchuk
A Biography of a Chance Miracle explores the life of Lena, a young girl growing up in the somewhat vapid, bureaucracy-ridden and nationalistic Western Ukrainian city of San Francisco. Lena is a misfit from early childhood due to her unwillingness to scorn everything Russian, her propensity for befriending forlorn creatures, her aversion to the status quo, and her fear of living a stupid and meaningless life, Lena sets forth on a mission to defend the abused and downtrodden of San Francisco--be they canine or human--armed with nothing more than an arsenal of humor, stubbornness, chutzpah and no shortage of imagination. Her successes are minimal at best, but in the process of trying to save San Francisco's collective humanity, she may end up saving her own. With haiku-like precision, Tanja's deceptively simple writing style blends surrealism and magical realism with satirical wit, occasionally outlandish humor and poignant social commentary
Print Book, English, 2018
Cadmus Press, [Place of publication not identified], 2018