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A review by redroofcolleen
The Orchard by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
3.0
The main characters were of a similar age during my adolescence, so I initially enjoyed this glimpse into the parallel and fairly dystopian world of Moscow during the era of the Soviet Union: a world of drunkenness, cruelty and violence, scarcity and black markets.
The language is incredibly evocative and deeply rooted in place, but perhaps, too much so, for I found the interminable bleakness, horror, and death too much and quit after reading 2/3.
The language is incredibly evocative and deeply rooted in place, but perhaps, too much so, for I found the interminable bleakness, horror, and death too much and quit after reading 2/3.