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Telling the story of A.L. Chizhevsky—the Soviet inventor of the field of heliobiology, who like his hero Galileo was punished with exile for his writings—this expansive narrative of historical reckoning stages a confrontation between factions of American anarchists, disciples of the Báb in 19th-century Persia, Jewish baseball players, and a quixotic quest to grow enormous chickens. Nested within is the story of the last Soviet generation and its dreams and illusions.
Elkind’s genre-defying debut is an irreverent and deeply personal investigation into what it means to record and remember in today’s oversaturated world, where the stories we tell ourselves have all been turned inside-out.
