Mother Doll: Excerpt from the Novel by Katya Apekina
April 25th, 2024 | by Katya Apekina
“I guess it was appropriate that my marriage ended after visiting a clubhouse for magicians. The stability of marriage was an illusion.”
About Katya Apekina
Katya Apekina
Katya Apekina is a novelist, screenwriter, and translator. Her debut novel, THE DEEPER THE WATER, THE UGLIER THE FISH, was named a Best Book of 2018 by Kirkus, Buzzfeed, Lithub, and others, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, and has been translated into Spanish, Catalan, French, German, and Italian. She is the recipient of an Elizabeth George grant, an Olin Fellowship, the Alena Wilson prize, and a Third Year Fiction Fellowship from Washington University in St. Louis, where she did her MFA. Born in Moscow, she moved to the US when she was three years old and currently lives in Los Angeles. MOTHER DOLL is her second novel.