A Novelist's Choice - A Novel About a Young Woman

There's so much humanity in her work, and i can't imagine a canon that doesn't include her books. I have, you know, it's almost like a fine cabinet maker who takes a beautiful piece of cherry, a beautiful pieces of ebony, an incredible length of maple, and makes them all work in the same piece of furniture. That's what alexeyevitch does for every single person, male, female, young old, no matter where they live or what they've experienced. It just opens you up to the feeling of what it was like to be a naive young woman swept up in the currents of history.