More Than Organs Penguin Random House He paints a vivid portrait

He paints a vivid portrait of the key figures who shaped the course of history

她是摇篮里窒息而死的女婴；她在战后凋敝的维也纳度过困顿的少女时代；她在政治上觉醒，投身运动，又在肃反中失去一切；她回到东德，成为人民作家，在掌握话语权的巅峰猝然离世；她活到九十高龄，失去了记忆，而养老院之外已是另一个国家……经历了三个帝国、两次大战、五次死亡，从世纪之交的加利西亚犹太小镇，到“一战”后的维也纳、斯大林时期的莫斯科，再到重新统一的柏林，有的她被热爱，有的她被背叛，有的她淡入历史，被人忘却。

primarily set in 1969-70

在卫国战争期间（1941—1945），有数百万苏联儿童死亡，活下来的幸存者，则失去了亲人，过早地结束了他们的童年。在本该享受童年快乐的阶段，“我们已经是男人和女人了”。本书是卫国战争幸存儿童的口述史，他们在经历这场战争时都是2-12岁的孩子。

a recovering addict

More Than Organs Penguin Random House He paints a vivid portraitA love letter to Brown, Queer, and Trans futures, Kay Ulanday Barrett's More Than Organs questions "whatever wholeness means" for bodies always in transit, for the safeties and dangers they silo. These poems remix people of color as earthbenders, replay "the choreography of loss" after the 2015 Pulse shooting, and till joy from the cosmic sweetness of a family's culinary history. Barrett works "to build a shelter of everyone [they] meet," from aunties