Thank you to @sophianguyen.bsky.social of the @washingtonpost.com for her excellent interview with #pioneersummer coauthors Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova! “Then the book went out into the big world,” Malisova said, “and we discovered things were really way worse than we thought.”
Two friends wrote a gay romance — and had to flee Russia
“Pioneer Summer,” by Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova, which sparked a backlash amid a government crackdown, is now available in English
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