IN THEIR WORDS
CROSS PURPOSE: Sana Krasikov aims to help readers “make sense of Russia and America."
FROM TOP: GRANTA; ALEXIS CALICE
WHEN THE world is changing rapidly, fiction can feel like the sanest way to make sense of it all. That’s true of The Patriots, the debut novel from Ukrainian-born writer Sana Krasikov. On the surface, it’s a three-generational story about a Russian-American immigrant family. But it’s also a story about the rivalry between two great superpowers—Russia and the U.S.—and what the novel’s author calls the “prolonged dialectic dance” between them.