There Are Jews in My House

Lara Vapnyar

2003

For some reason, Galina’s mother had been turning up in her thoughts more often since the war began. Galina didn’t think about her with defiance, the way she used to before her mother’s death and for a long time after that; now instead she tried to imagine how her mother would have reacted to one event or another in Galina’s life. Galina tried to…

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Creator Bio

Lara Vapnyar

b. 1971

Lara Vapnyar, who was born in the Soviet Union and now lives in the United States, is the author of short stories portraying the lives of Russian immigrants in New York City. These stories have appeared in several magazines as well as in a published collection. Vapnyar, also a novelist, is the recipient of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 2004 Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers and the O. Henry Prize.

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