The Genius Under the Table

The Genius Under the Table

Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

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Read by: Eugene Yelchin

Language: English

Length: 2 hours and 53 minutes

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Release date: 2021-12-14

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 of 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.