Sam Wachman

A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war breaks out in modern Ukraine. In many ways, twelve-year-old Artem’s life in Chernihiv, Ukraine, is normal. He spends his days helping on his grandfather’s sunflower farm, drawing in his sketchbook—a...

FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FOR FICTIONFINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE MASS BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION That rarest phenomenon: a war novel that feels at once timeless and precisely of the moment... —Washington Post A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in...