Two women sit side-by-side on the edge of a bed as night falls. Both emigrated from the Soviet Union at the age of 7. Neither speak. The silence between them is filled with hidden messages. Their small bedroom houses generations of Soviet diasporas, from the displaced indigenous people of Siberia to the Jewish refugees of the 90s and the queer Ukrainians fleeing war today. The narrator asks: what does it mean to have hope?
Two women sit side-by-side on the edge of a bed as night falls. Both emigrated from the Soviet Union at the age of 7. Neither speak. The silence between them is filled with hidden messages. Their small bedroom houses generations of Soviet diasporas, from the displaced indigenous people of Siberia to the Jewish refugees of the 90s and the queer Ukrainians fleeing war today. The narrator asks: what does it mean to have hope?
Yelena Moskovich is a Ukrainian-born author of three novels, A Door Behind A Door, Virtuoso (long-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize) and The Natashas. She emigrated to the the US with her family as Jewish refugees in 1991, then again on her own to France in 2007. She studied dramatic writing at Emerson College (Boston), physical theatre at Ecole Jacques Lecoq (Paris), and received a Master of Arts, Aesthetics & Philosophy (Performing Arts) from Université Paris 8. She co-founded the theatre company, La Compagnie Pavlov, in Paris in 2009. Her plays and performances have been produced in the US, Canada, France and Sweden. Her writing has appeared in publications including as Vogue, Frieze, The Times Literary Supplement, Paris Review, Apartamento and Fantastic Man. She taught creative writing at the University of Kent's Paris School of Arts & Culture and, in 2018, she was curator and exhibiting artist for the Los Angeles Queer Biennial.
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