The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight (ePub)

Gina Ochsner is the author of two collections of short stories, People I Wanted to Be and The Necessary Grace to Fall, both of which won the Oregon Book Award, and a novel, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Ochsner is a recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the William Faulkner Prize, an NEA grant, a Guggenheim, and the Raymond Carver Prize. She lives in Oregon.

“Gina Ochsner has enough imagination to cover Siberia.” —The Portland Mercury
 
“This book is poetry.” —Salem Monthly
 
“Keeping the reader from getting too comfortable are delightful, intriguing splashes of magical realism. . . . Ochsner’s fluid, poetic storytelling [conveys] dry wit and imaginative metaphors.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
 
“Grant[s] a rare glimpse of buoyant inner worlds that flourish through the frost.” —Publishers Weekly
 
“Gina Oschner’s novel is enchanting, at once playful and poignant. With her marvelously light touch, she takes the rubble of post-Soviet Russia and turns it into gold.” —Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, author of Ms. Hempel Chronicles and Madeleine Is Sleeping
 
“The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight is a hilariously absurdist and deeply resonant debut novel. Gina Ochsner transforms ordinary lives into something magical and wise and glintingly beautiful.” —Irina Reyn, author of What Happened to Anna K.
 
“Heartbreaking and funny and deeply moving, this beautifully wrought novel matters from first word to last. This is an absolutely original book, and Gina Ochsner is like no other writer I know at work today. She is at once a fabulist and a realist, a romantic and a cold-eyed recorder of the ways we rationalize our most intimate mistakes. Her love of both the written word and of humanity at large shine through on every page, and I couldn’t stop reading this tale of the living and the dead, the loved and the unloved, the powerful and the oppressed. This is magical stuff—The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight is whimsical, ghost-riven, satirical and darkly, richly, wonderfully redeeming.” —Bret Lott, author of Jewel and A Song I Knew by Heart