A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 From the acclaimed author of The Hottest Dishes Of The Tartar Cuisine "a cruel comic romp ends as a surprisingly winning story of hardship and resilience" (The New Yorker). Max lives with his grandparents in a residential home for refugees in Germany. When his grandmother--a terrifying, stubborn matriarch and a former Russian primadonna--moved them from the Motherland...