10/30/2023 0 Comments Lights all night longHaving passed the exam, Ilya flies to live with the Mason family in Louisiana in 2008, but his thoughts are still at home, where his older brother, Vladimir, is in jail for the murders of young women that Ilya knows he didn’t commit-but to which Vladimir has confessed. Ilya, a gifted Russian teen in Berlozhniki, so impresses his English teacher Maria that she pins on him her hopes, and the hopes of the town: that he will pass an exam allowing him to go on exchange to America for a year. Fitzpatrick’s glittering debut tells the story of how 15-year-old Ilya’s wildest dream-going to America-is shattered by his worst nightmare: doing it without his older brother.
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