Good Citizens Need Not Fear

'A comic triumph' GLOBE AND MAIL

'Luminous' YANN MARTEL

'Outstanding' ANTHONY DOERR

A brilliant and bitingly funny novel-in-stories, set in and around a single crumbling apartment building in Soviet-era Ukraine. Inspired by Maria Reva's own family's history, Good Citizens Need Not Fear takes us from paranoia to tenderness and back again, exploring what it is to be an individual amid the roiling forces of history.

'Maria Reva's enthralling debut of interlinked short stories achieves the double effect of timelessness and timeliness' KAPKA KASSABOVA, GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY

'One of the leading post-Soviet writers of her generation while breaking through the limitations of the term itself' THE NATION

'Reva's characters spark off the page as they confront a brutal bureaucratic past with the only tool they possess - hope' O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE