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Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets

Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets

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This slim but mighty collection was written by a documentary photographer who also happens to wield the awesome power of the pen
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"This slim but mighty collection was written by a documentary photographer who also happens to wield the awesome power of the pen; the pictures are worth 1,000 words, and while I'm sure Beloruset is capable of literalizing that cliche, she choose the most salient to give her images context we can be grateful for as the Ukrainian conflict endures."

--Linda

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Out of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets's captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a war, still being waged on and off, ever since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. Through a series of unexpected encounters, we are pulled into the ordinary lives of these anonymous women: a florist, a cosmetologist, card players, readers of horoscopes, the unemployed, and a witch who catches newborns with a mitt. One refugee tries unsuccessfully to leave her broken umbrella behind as if it were a sick relative; a private caregiver in a disputed zone saves her elderly charge from the angel of death; a woman sits down on International Women's Day and can no longer stand up; a soldier decides to marry war. Belorusets threads these tales of ebullient survival with a mix of humor, verisimilitude, the undramatic, and a profound Gogolian irony. She also weaves in twenty-three photographs that, in lyrical and historical counterpoint, form their own remarkable visual narrative.

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