Between Dog and Wolf

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The hour between dog and wolf is twilight, when it is hard to distinguish between known and unknown, right and wrong. When one state has ended and another has not quite begun. In 1980s Russia, Soviet policies, cruel but familiar, are giving way to untested concepts such as glasnost and perestroika.

Four teenagers Anya, Milka, Petya and Aleksey, whose lives, like those of their Western counterparts, are fuelled by sex, alcohol, and cigarettes yearn for a world of Levis, Queen, foreign travel and the freedom to choose their fates. Instead, like their ancestors, they encounter heartbreak and tragedy. With a nod to Chekhovs The Cherry Orchard, crumbling dachas surrounded by apple orchards, the scenes of idyllic summers, are slated for destruction as capitalism corrupts and corrodes the best of the past without bringing a promise of renewal.

Yet while depicting a bloody and desperate era, this exceptional debut novel pulsates with life. It is radiant with friendship and love, the power of international literature, values and politics, as its characters struggle to survive, to save their country and one another.

A timeless tale of memory, desire, dreams lost and altered, love changed and unchanged. Yiyun Li, author of Must I Go

[A] Stunning debut...Gorcheva-Newberry pulls off a tragic and nostalgic love letter to a much-tried generation. This is a winner. Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Gorcheva-Newberry does the reader a great service, offering a peek behind the iron curtain and its veil of propoganda...If there is such a thing as clear-eyed sentimentality, Between Dog and Wolf evokes it. Bookpage (Starred Review)

Reviews

http://www.midwestbookreview.com/rbw/mar_22.htm#markzvonkovic

-- Mark Zvonkovic * Midwest Book Review *

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-593-35601-2

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-- Caitlin Stout * Chicago Review of Books *

https://www.startribune.com/review-the-orchard-by-kristina-gorcheva-newberry/600155081/

-- Cory Ildweller * Minneapolis Star Tribune *

https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/the-orchard-kristina-gorcheva-newberry/

-- Thane Tierney * Bookpage *

https://www.christinesneed.com/post/interview-with-debut-novelist-kristina-gorcheva-newberry

-- Christine Sneed

https://swvatoday.com/community/bland_county/article_5b4553c4-c7fa-11ec-8dec-2f6076c9405b.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

-- Millie Rothrock * Bland Country Messenger *

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-- Rose Martin * Write Around the Corner, Blue Ridge PBS *

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-- Cathy Alter * Washing Independent Review of Books *

https://harvardreview.org/book-review/the-orchard/

-- Olive Fellows * The Harvard Review *

https://nypost.com/2022/10/13/priyanka-chopra-jonas-favorite-jewels-and-beauty-finds/

-- Priyanka Chopra * The New York Post *

Best books of 2022: Top 30 must-read titles of the year (nypost.com)

-- Mackenzie Dawson * The New York Post *

Author Bio

Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry was born in Armenia and raised in Soviet Russia. She moved to the USA in 1995, after having witnessed perestroika and the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Kristina has published fifty stories and received nine Pushcart nominations. She is the winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction for her debut collection of stories, What Isnt Remembered, shortlisted for the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize. Between Dog and Wolf, published to rapturous reviews in the USA as The Orchard, is her first novel.