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The genius under the table : growing up behind the Iron Curtain / Eugene Yelchin.

by Yelchin, Eugene.

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Candlewick Press, c2021.

947.0850092 Y43g

Yelchin, Eugene -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.

Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 -- Juvenile literature.

201 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russia. Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents' dream that he become a national hero when he doesn't even have his own room? He's not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table, and the doodles that could change everything. With equal amounts charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family.

Autobiographies, Juvenile.

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