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The Genius under the Table: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain

Written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Candlewick Imprint Candlewick ISBN

9781536215526

Awards and Honors 2022 The Sydney Taylor Book Award - Middle Grade Honor Book

The Genius under the Table: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain

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With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russia.



Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents’ dream that he become a national hero when he doesn’t even have his own room? He’s not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table, and the doodles that could change everything. With equal amounts charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family.

Black-and-white graphite illustrations. 
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