Irina Reyn crea narrativas que profundizan en las complejidades de las dinámicas familiares y las intersecciones culturales. Sus obras exploran temas de identidad y pertenencia con una profunda perspicacia psicológica. La escritura de Reyn se caracteriza por diálogos agudos y un hábil entrelazamiento de historias personales en contextos sociales más amplios. Su prosa ofrece a los lectores un examen atractivo y que invita a la reflexión sobre el amor, la pérdida y la búsqueda del hogar.
Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler's insecure mother; and as a ethnic Russian, she finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who think she is a traitor.
The Imperial Wife follows the lives of two women, one in contemporary New York City and the other in eighteenth-century Russia.Tanya Kagan, a specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband.As questions arise over the provenance of the Order and auction fever kicks in, Reyn takes us into the world of Catherine the Great, the infamous 18th-century woman who may have owned the priceless artifact, and who it turns out faced many of the same issues Tanya wrestles with in her own life.The Imperial Wife asks what female ambition means, today and in the past, and whether a marriage can withstand an ambitious wife.Praise for The Imperial Wife"Dazzling and insanely ambitious." -Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook"A marvelously engaging, affecting and amusing novel." -Phillip Lopate"I literally could not put down Irina Reyn's The Imperial Wife. The manner in which this author is able to switch back and forth between the dwindling marriage of a contemporary New York couple and the domestic life of Catherine the Great is nothing less than masterful. This is the most satisfying novel I've read in a long, long time." -Katie Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Girls in Trucks and Abroad
A Novel
Married unhappily to a prominent member of her tight-knit Russian immigrant community, vivacious Anna K. engages in a reckless affair with an outsider on whom she has pinned fleeting hopes for freedom, while in a neighboring community, Bukharian-Jewish pharmacist Lev harbors a consuming love for Anna's cousin. 75,000 first printing.
New Jersey Writers Take on the Garden State
Highlighting the New Jersey Renaissance, this anthology showcases a diverse collection of works from the state's most talented writers. It invites readers on a journey through various regions, celebrating New Jersey's distinctive cultural identity and contributions to the literary landscape.