SEAGULLS

Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series Selection"An extraordinary debut, Seagulls delves into the myriad diasporas of love and war—after the Russia’s 2022 attack on Ukraine. Inspired by Chekhov’s famous play, the characters seem almost to oscillate in time, hovering like seagulls over their own uncertain destinies.—Cristina García, author of Vanishing Maps

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NINA CHAYKA

A teenage Olympic champion in Krakow, a stripper in New York, an American professor at Yale, a tech executive, and a doctor turned undocumented nanny— through these interconnected lives, Seagulls explores how individuals bound by war find the relentless, if sometimes reluctant, need to move forward.
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NINA ChAYKA

Nina Chayka’s debut collection draws on stories collected by the author from Ukrainians and Russians whose lives were shattered by the war, and from the author’s own experiences as a member of a Muslim minority in Russia, her escape from harassment and threats of the Russian government, and her eventual exile in the United States.

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