Little Foxes Took Up Matches

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A VOGUE, Debutiful, and Secular Times Best Book of 2022 A NYLON, Chicago Review of Books, and Kirkus Best Book of the Month A Rumpus Most Beautiful Book of 2022 "Unflinching, yet achingly humorous. . . . proving we can become the gods and goddesses this world truly needs." -Paul Beatty An arresting coming of age, an exploration of gender, a modern folktale, a powerful portrait of a family-Katya Kazbek breaks out as a new voice to watch. When Mitya was two years old, he swallowed his grandmother's sewing needle. For his family, it marks the beginning of the end, the promise of certain death. For Mitya, it is a small, metal treasure that guides him from within. As he grows, his life mirrors the uncertain future of his country, which is attempting to rebuild itself after the collapse of the Soviet Union, torn between its past and the promise of modern freedom. Mitya finds himself facing a different sort of ambiguity: is he a boy, as everyone keeps telling him, or is he not quite a boy, as he often feels? ...