“Your Ad Could Go Here,” by Oksana Zabuzhko; translated by Halyna Hryn, Askold Melnyczuk, Nina Murray, Marco Carynnyk and Marta Horban; edited by Nina Murray. Seattle, Wash.: Amazon Crossing, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-5420-2252-1, softcover, 270 pp., $14.95. (Also available in hardcover and as an e-book.)
Oksana Zabuzhko, author of “Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex,” has published a new short story collection. In “Your Ad Could Go Here,” Ms. Zabuzhko explores the ties that bind sisters, parents and children, friends and lovers, husbands and wives. Her vulnerable, wise and cruel characters challenge the concept of truth and capture the strangeness of being human.