I love it when you finished a book and then left with a bittersweet, painful twang inside your heart 🖤
Marra lends a colorful description of his characters and the world around them. For those unfamiliar with the surrounding context (as I am), you hardly felt lost, and might learn a thing or two about life in the USSR during that period. Yes the short stories interloped with each other but sometimes not in the way you expected.