Books
Raising the curtain: One Belorussian’s post-Soviet journey
A memoir
The blurb
In search of merit-based life, a small-town girl flees the drugs and AIDS capital of the newly independent Belarus to the macho corporate world of Dubai.
Dreams and opium collide in this coming-of-age story set in the unravelling USSR. A riveting account of human grit, losses, near misses, and many hits in this generational tale of those who dared to leave.Coming soon
The Odds of Me: undoing the insanity
The blurb
Dasha, a successful corporate executive, is jolted into action when her younger sister, Lisa, gets diagnosed with bipolar disorder in her native, newly independent Belarus. Entangled in her family’s mental illness heritage, Dasha contends with her own vices threatening her life as she mobilises from thousands of kilometres away to fight her sister’s battle.
A moral premise of how far one would go to save her sister’s life frames horror and hope, sorrow and riotous irony, wrath and redemption. The Odds of Me is a high-stakes journey to forgiveness.
Books
Raising the curtain: One Belorussian’s post-Soviet journey
A memoir
The blurb
In search of merit-based life, a small-town girl flees the drugs and AIDS capital of the newly independent Belarus to the macho corporate world of Dubai.
Dreams and opium collide in this coming-of-age story set in the unravelling USSR. A riveting account of human grit, losses, near misses, and many hits in this generational tale of those who dared to leave.Coming soon
The Odds of Me: undoing the insanity
The blurbDasha, a successful corporate executive, is jolted into action when her younger sister, Lisa, gets diagnosed with bipolar disorder in her native, newly independent Belarus. Entangled in her family’s mental illness heritage, Dasha contends with her own vices threatening her life as she mobilises from thousands of kilometres away to fight her sister’s battle.
A moral premise of how far one would go to save her sister’s life frames horror and hope, sorrow and riotous irony, wrath and redemption. The Odds of Me is a high-stakes journey to forgiveness.