"In Twice-Born World, Wendell Mayo manages the seemingly impossible-to make his stories both steeped in post-Soviet Lithuanian sensibilities while also making them feel universal. I couldn't put this book down.- Daiva Markelis, author of White Field, Black Sheep: A Lithuanian-American Life Every story in Twice-Born World is a gem. As always, Mayo masterfully combines elements of the absurd with deeply poetic language. Mayo's characters, like Lithuania herself, long to connect to a more youthful, hopeful version of the past. In this volume, the themes are even more sharply delineated, with desire playing a more prominent role. In his new book, Twice-Born World: Stories of Lithuania, he resurrects themes from In Lithuanian Wood and The Cucumber King of K dainia: grief, loneliness, the impossibility of communication, the inexplicability of desire. Wendell Mayo captures the fractured, mournful soul of modern Lithuania like no other writer. A New Collection from Wendell Mayo, author of 'In Lithuanian Wood', and 'The Cucumber King of K dainia?.
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