Lucky Breaks

Download Published in Ukraine in 2018, these surreal short stories by a noted photographer probe the experiences of women from the Donbas region, many of whom fled the separatist conflict that erupted in 2014 and now live as refugees in Kyiv. The stories, ethnographic in perspective but Gogolian in register, gravitate toward inexplicable disappearances, repressed memories, and phantasmagoria. Belorusets writes of 'the deep penetration of traumatic historical events into the fantasies…of everyday life‘ and richly evokes the fatalistic humor of her marginalized characters, one of whom observes, 'If you had the luck to be born here, you take things as they come.'

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