Reviews
"Janet Fitch's novel shimmers with vital energy...[she] clearly did an astounding amount of research for the novel, which luxuriates in exotic period details... The Revolution of Marina M. is hard to put down...it is charming and lively and ultimately worth the time."-- Trine Tsouderos , Chicago Tribune, "Marina's unlikelybildungsroman proves so gripping that it's hard to put down...Fitch depicts [theRevolution] with devastating accuracy and imaginative power...sprawling, majestic."-- Ani Kokobobo , LA Review of Books, "This epic tale fromthe bestselling author of White Oleander follows Marina Makarova, a young womanliving in St. Petersburg at the start of the Russian Revolution in 1916.Looking to escape from her privileged life, she joins the marches for worker'srights-and finds herself falling in love with the movement and a young radical.In this relatable coming-of-age novel, Marina grapples with a changing worldand struggles to find her place in it."-- Nora Horvath , Real Simple, "A captivating novel starring an unforgettable heroine, The Revolution of Marina M. shows you a side to the Russian Revolution you've never seen before."-- Sadie Trombetta , Bustle, " The Revolution of Marina M. takes us deep inside the Russian Revolution and lets us witness it through a pair of remarkable eyes. Marina is a female Zhivago - a poet who uses her intelligence, her passion, and her love of language to interpret and survive the political turmoil around her. Janet Fitch is a wonderful writer and this might be her best book."-- David Ebershoff,author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife, "It's a portrait of amoment in time -- of a woman in time, in fact -- that we don't often see, and you'llfind yourself savoring each and every word of this breathtaking novel."-- Chelsea Hassler , PopSugar, "There's brilliance in this book: concept, structure,style. If the horrors associatedwith the Russian revolution freeze your blood, remember the fire and brimstoneof our own Civil War. Read this novel for the passion of the main character, agirl becoming woman and poet with ten times the vitality and intellect ofScarlett O'Hara."-- Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and Abundance,a Novel of Marie-Antoinette, "Incandescent. Fitch has expertly drawn the world of Russia in 1916 influrries of white, like an exquisite snow globe, and then nudged it to the edge of a precipice, until in onejarring push, it falls. It crashes and each brilliant shard lifts andswirls. Poets, artists, profiteers, soldiers, cult leaders, sadists, idealists,blood, sex, hope all piecing together in a new life, a new country. Thebrilliant Janet Fitch has written yet another powerful, kaleidoscopic novel."-- Cynthia Bond, author of Ruby, "Janet Fitch's The Revolution of Marina M ., an epic tale of one young woman's story amid the drama and tragedy of the Russian Revolution, is just the thing to keep you both personally inspired and seasonally appropriate."-- Mary Sollosi , Entertainment Weekly, " The Revolution of Marina M. takes usdeep inside the Russian Revolution and lets us witness it through a pair ofremarkable eyes. Marina is a female Zhivago - a poet whouses her intelligence, her passion, and her love of language to interpret andsurvive the political turmoil around her. Janet Fitch is a wonderful writer andthis might be her best book."-- David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife, "Marina is by turns adventurous, foolish, romantic, self-destructive and courageous in this extraordinary coming-of-age tale."-- Jane Ciabbatari , BBC Culture
