Steppe A Novel by Oksana Vasyakina book box the girl she has cursed…and

the girl she has cursed…and the girl she can’t seem to stop thinking about despite her best efforts

the boy with perpetually ink-stained hands and hair like autumn leaves

who agrees to train her in weaponry--a safe way of defending herself

and traditions

and fulfill a grand destiny

Steppe A Novel by Oksana Vasyakina book box the girl she has cursed…andA visceral, stirring novel following a queer literature student traveling across Russia with her estranged father, a long haul truck driver secretly dying of AIDS, from the acclaimed author of Wound A decade after her father walks out on her family, the narrator of Steppe, now a literature student, decides to spend some time with him on the road as he makes deliveries across the vast plains of Russia. Shes attracted and repulsed by his rugged life as