Beschreibung:
Boris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, and emigrated to the United States in 1988. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Travel + Leisure, the London Review of Books, New York magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and the Guardian, among other publications. He is the author of the novels A Replacement Life, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal, and Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo, which was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He teaches in Princeton University's Creative Writing Program and lives in New York City.
Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with ?a devil in her head? about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he was the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting a less predictable life.