Kazbek's dreamy family of misfits forged in the feminine occult will stay with you forever. It's nothing short of exceptional that anyone can write original, brilliant, and witty prose in a language not their own we marvel at a Vladimir Nabokov, a Joseph Conrad, a Jhumpa Lahiri, a Katya Kazbek., A luscious modern queer fable drawn in post-Soviet Russian red lipstick. She illuminates post-soviet Russia's contradictions in prose as undeflected and fearless as the contradictions themselves are piercing and violent. Kazbek writes this fascinating story with eloquence, human understanding and compassion. Kazbek has reinvented-and bewitched-the coming-of-age genre, and I can't wait to succumb to whatever magic she writes next., Absorbing and unremittingly honest, Little Foxes Took Up Matches is a magnificent journey with a thunderous effect that both injures and mends. A relief, really, to read a debut novel as original as this-as cunning, wild and free., A queer coming-of-age narrative in every sense of the word, Kazbek's novel is twisty, tragic, and deeply charming-an endearing exploration of the stories we tell and the people we find in order to live., An unpredictable love story that is mesmeric, totally original, and deeply, deeply touching, Little Foxes Took Up Matches examines our competing human instincts to belong and to escape. Brava!, Many have tried and failed to summon the magic Katya Kazbek wields here as matter of factly as a switchblade. Katya Kazbek writes with wit, heart, and the needle-prick of life., A luscious modern queer fable drawn in post-Soviet Russian red lipstick. a potent exploration of the flexibility of gender and the peace in not knowing an ode to friendship and an endorsement of compassion., A Russian satire, a queer myth, an enchanting coming of age story-Little Foxes Took Up Matches is one of the most original, and charming, debuts I've read in some time. As dark as a Brothers Grimm fairy tale-and as magical., A coming-of-age triumph.

A rich and moving look at a child in the midst of self-discovery.

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