Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

By Eugene Yelchin

An Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Honor Winner

With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russia.

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.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GMZBPDFY
• ISBN13: 9798855148411
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Bound to Stay Bound Books
• Length: 201 Pages
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher