Orphan of the Moon: Notebook of a Girl in a Moscow Station

How exhilarating to encounter a novella this spectacularly imaginative with every page and collage adding new elements to the building complexity of this resonant story. Libins lyrical text is as captivating as her collages what a gorgeous extraordinary book. -Idra Novey author of Those Who Knew (Viking)Orphan of the Moon is a living breathing hybrid work unlike anything Ive ever read-an orphans notebook exhumed from the Moscow station and entrusted to your own red heart. An astonishing evocation of the subterranean universe of childhood at once devastating and inspiring a young girls yearning for the world shes lost for fresh strawberries her birth name and love; a fractured song of forgetting and remembering and a testament to the death-defying power of art: dark spits at me I spit back. The station sanctuaries us writes Libin and this books broken-winged poetry did the same for me. -Karen Russell author of Orange World and Other Stories (Knopf)