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Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

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Elyse Durham’s immersive and thematically timely first novel centers on twin sisters, born during the Siege of Leningrad, trained as ballet dancers at the celebrated Vaganova, and launching their careers at the height of the Cold War. The plot is set to detonate at a critical point in the Cold War, the year 1962, when […]

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Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

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MAYA & NATASHA, Elyse Durham Maya and Natasha are twin sisters born during the Siege of Leningrad in 1941 and abandoned by their mother, a prima ballerina at the Kirov Ballet who would rather die than not dance. Taken in by their mother’s best friend at the Kirov, the girls are raised to be dancers. […] The post MAYA & NATASHA, Elyse Durham: EXCERPT appeared first on Women Writers, Women's Books.

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