Mother Doll Photography by Francesco Lagnese As seasons pass

As seasons pass

Nesbit—The Railway Children and Five Children and It are my favorites—but I knew nothing about the extraordinary

as societal changes and the once-isolationist country’s new global engagement provided a wealth of new subjects for artists to capture

and the search for the theory of human consciousness

Mother Doll Photography by Francesco Lagnese As seasons pass*** BALCONES PRIZE FINALIST *** Prize winning author Katya Apekinas Mother Doll is a sharp, kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations of mothers and daughters Punctuated with Apekinas wry observations and wicked sense of humor (Los Angeles Times), Mother Doll is a family epic and meditation on motherhood, immigration, identity, and war. Apekinas second novel is not only a harrowing examination of