Elyse Durham Presents: MAYA & NATASHA

Tue Feb 18 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm UTC-05:00

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Elyse Durham Presents: MAYA & NATASHA
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Author Elyse Durham releases her new historical novel: "Maya & Natash" in conversation with author Andy Mozina
About this Event

Join us at the bookstore in celebration of Elyse Durham's debut novel, Maya & Natasha

Leningrad, 1958. Twin sisters Maya and Natasha have worked their whole lives in the pursuit of one goal: to dance with the Kirov Ballet, like their late mother. But a new law from the Kremlin upends Maya and Natasha’s lives: due to fears of defection, family members may no longer travel abroad together. The Kirov can only accept one of them.

As the Cold War heats up, Maya and Natasha must confront their loyalties: to East versus West; to the government that saved them versus their dreams of freedom; and, always, to each other.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Elyse Durham is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her fiction has appeared or is upcoming in the Cimarron Review, Image Journal, the Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She is an Elizabeth George grantee and has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Glen Arbor Arts Center, and The Mount, the home of Edith Wharton. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband, who is a Greek Orthodox priest.

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Bookbug & this is a bookstore, 3019 Oakland Drive, Kalamazoo, United States

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