Ballerina, Ballerina United States of America and is a first novel

and is a first novel that is as symptomatic of our time as the title suggests

to hear the voice of a master storyteller

the end of the war

" escape the dreary reality above ground with vodka and high-minded discussion in their private hideaway

Ballerina, Ballerina United States of America and is a first novelBallerina, Ballerina is a painful and poetic reconstruction of its narrators fractured worldview in both the details of her family life and the bits of the mass media reality that flow beyond the boundaries of her backyard [she] is unreliable, disoriented, atemporal. Vladislava Gordi Petkovi The narrator of this novel is Ballerina, a fifteen year old with the cognitive faculties of a child, and each of its fifteen chapters begins with her first