{"product_id":"nadezhda-in-the-dark","title":"Nadezhda in the Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003eA stunning, novel-in-verse exploration of LGBTQ+ life in the shadow of the former Soviet bloc\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the longest night of a milk-dark Berlin winter, a doomed couple sit side by side on their bed. Both fled the Soviet Union as children, the narrator from Ukraine, and her girlfriend from Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lights are off. Neither speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn their silence, a century of Ukrainian and Russian history resurfaces: forgotten literary characters, Yiddish maxims, contraband jokes, LGBT life in the post-Soviet bloc, Jewish diaspora to Israel, beauty vlogs, shaken sanity, hidden messages in Russian pop music, resistance in Odessa, Moscow club raids, and the death of a beloved friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe requiem inside the narrator’s head circles the question pinned within the darkness: What does it mean to hold onto Nadezhda, whose name means “hope”? And is holding it enough?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram Publisher Services","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53103240478995,"sku":"9781938603518","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/1652\/7891\/files\/9781938603518.jpg?v=1769111108","url":"https:\/\/www.monsterasbooks.com\/products\/nadezhda-in-the-dark","provider":"Monstera's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}