FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF ENDLING 'Bright funny satirical and relevant. .
. . A new talent to watch!' MARGARET ATWOOD (via Twitter) This brilliant and bitingly funny
novel-in-stories set in and around a single crumbling apartment building in Soviet-era Ukraine
heralds the arrival of a major new talent. A cast of unforgettable characters--citizens of
the small industrial town of Kirovka--populate Maria Reva's ingeniously entwined tales that
span the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union in
1989. Weaving the strands of the narrative together is an unforgettable chameleon-like young
woman named Zaya: an orphan turned beauty-pageant crasher who survives the extraordinary
circumstances of her childhood through a compelling combination of ferocity intelligence
stubbornness and wit. Inspired by her own family's history Reva's Good Citizens Need Not Fear
takes us from paranoia to tenderness and back again exploring what it is to be an individual
amid the roiling forces of history. 'A comic triumph' GLOBE AND MAIL 'Bang-on brilliant'
MIRIAM TOEWS 'Luminous' YANN MARTEL 'Outstanding' ANTHONY DOERR 'Maria Reva's enthralling
debut of interlinked short stories achieves the double effect of timelessness and timeliness'
KAPKA KASSABOVA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY
