A review by corinneavital
Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories by Maria Reva

When I was kid, I was rarely allowed to go to sleepovers. "You have your own bed, why would you want to sleep in someone else's?" was the constant refrain. Back in the Soviet Union, where everyone in my family but me was from, sleeping in someone else's home meant you didn't have one yourself. Which is to say, these stories hit. The comically full apartments, the blurred line between absurdity and reality wrought by the specific authoritarian styles of the Soviet state, the specific type of humor created to deal with it—this book was so welcomingly familiar and stylistically spot on.

Super curious to see how those with no connections to the Soviet Union receive it.