Description

Rosa Achmetowna may be the outrageously unpleasant and clever narrator of the rollicking family tale from the writer of Broken Glass Playground When she finds that her seventeen-year-old child, “stupid Sulfia,” is pregnant by an unfamiliar guy she does anything to circumvent the maternity, having a number of folkloric natural home remedies. But despite her best attempts the infant, Aminat, comes into the world nine months later at Soviet Birthing Center Quantity 134. Much to Rosa’s pleasure and shock, dark-eyed Aminat is just a Tartar through and through and immediately becomes the apple of her grandmother’s attention. An epic struggle is waged by Rosa to wrestle Aminat from Sulfia, whom she views a woefully inefficient mom, while her advantageous to nothing partner Kalganow uses his nights giving pigeons and considering death in the town park.