The Genius Under the Table - by Eugene Yelchin (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Eugene Yelchin recounts growing up in Cold War Russia.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russia.</b> <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The self-effacing narrative seamlessly blends in Cold War history, Soviet politics, and loving family interchanges, and Yelchin's sly illustrations appear on almost every page. There's not a lot of material about this time period, and this humorous, informative, and engaging memoir will keep readers entertained.<br>--Booklist (starred review) <p/>This memoir of [Yelchin's] adolescence is a forthright, darkly humorous and indelible portrait of an artist emerging. . . Yelchin, wonderfully, allows his text and pictures to interrupt each other with glee, reminding us how life begets art. It certainly does here.<br>--The Horn Book (starred review) <p/>Yelchin delivers a darkly humorous slice-of-life account of growing up in the Soviet Union. . . . Humorous, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful<br>--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) <p/>In this frank, engaging memoir, Yelchin (<i>Spy Runner</i>) recounts his childhood in the U.S.S.R. as his boyhood self, Yevgeny, perceives and ponders it. . . . At once comical and disquieting, the book is an illuminating introduction to a young life in the former Soviet Union.<br>--Publishers Weekly (starred review) <p/>The multitalented author/illustrator here turns his lens on his own life as a child in Soviet Russia during the 1960s and '70s. . . . with any luck Yelchin will follow this with a second autobiographical volume.<br>--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review) <p/>Yelchin has created an unforgettable portrayal of one family's experiences living in the Soviet Union during the Cold War in his ingenious memoir. . . . Recommended for those who love captivating memoirs mixed with humor.<br>--School Library Journal (starred review) <p/>Author Eugene Yelchin gives readers an honest look at what his life was like growing up in Soviet Russia. . . . I believe this book definitely should be included in upper elementary and middle school libraries.<br>--School Library Connection <p/>'The Genius Under the Table' is Eugene Yelchin's idiosyncratic illustrated memoir of boyhood behind the Iron Curtain, a chronicle that manages to amuse with its quirky details and disturb with the broad picture it paints of life under communism. . . wry and humorous artwork adds to the levity.<br>--The Wall Street Journal <p/>With the same deadpan, comic style he used to great effect in 2011 children's novel 'Breaking Stalin's Nose, ' author-illustrator Eugene Yelchin offers a poignant memoir of growing up in the Soviet Union.<br>--The Buffalo News <p/>Eugene Yelchin's new memoir, <i>The Genius Under the Table</i>, is an extraordinary work of memory told with clear-sightedness and ironic good humor, both disguising a great deal of pathos. This book is a recipe for survival for us all in a world growing tougher by the day.<br>--David Small, Caldecott Medal winner and National Book Award Finalist for Stitches <p/><i> </i>I read Eugene Yelchin's sad, funny memoir with tears and laughter. It is told with such exquisite humor and illustrated with such wonderful, biting drawings that, in spite of its darkness, I savored every word and every picture. A treat.<br>--Uri Shulevitz, winner of the Caldecott Medal and three Caldecott Honors <p/>Eugene Yelchin's illustrated memoir is shaping up to be one of the most celebrated books of the season. And with good reason - It's funny, surprising, and heart-wrenching.<br>--100 Scope Notes<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Eugene Yelchin<i> </i></b>is the co-author and illustrator of the 2018 National Book Award Finalist <i>The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge</i>, co-written with M. T. Anderson. A Tomie dePaola Illustrator Award Winner, he also received a Newbery Honor for his novel <i>Breaking Stalin's Nose</i>. Born in Leningrad, Russian-American Eugene Yelchin now lives in Topanga, California, with his family.
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