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Fieldwork In Ukrainian Sex
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1996
- Originally in
- Originally in Ukrainian
- Pages
- Pages 170
Sentences that will not stop for breath run down the page, swerving between I and you and she, because the woman telling this cannot settle which of them was the one who got hurt. Oksana is a Ukrainian poet teaching in America in the 1990s, her country newly free, picking over the wreckage of an affair with Mykola, a painter from home whose love came with contempt folded inside it.
the Ukrainian choice is a choice between nonexistence and an existence that kills you
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