“History in the Bed”: Elena Rotzokou Reads Yelena Moskovich’s New Novel-in-Verse Nadezhda in the Dark
Yelena Moskovich’s Nadezhda in the Dark begins in a room so still it almost seems sealed: two women in bed in Berlin, the lights off, neither speaking. From that nearly immobile setup, the book builds extraordinary motion. The narrator, a Jewish émigré from Ukraine, lies beside her Russian girlfriend, Nadezhda, while the dark fills with…
