Elena Georgiou

Writer, editor, and professor Elena Georgiou: author of Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants and mercy mercy me; co-editor of The World in Us...

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The Immigrant’s Refrigerator reviewed in Sinister Wisdom

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My thanks to Sara Gregory, who reviewed The Immigrant’s Refrigerator (GenPop Books, 2018) for issue 109 of Sinister Wisdom. Sara describes the collection as a “a multiply-voiced chorus spanning experiences of political upheaval, violence, sex work, death, scholarship, bread-baking, spirituality, physical and psychic hunger.”

Elena Georgiou’s The Immigrant’s Refrigerator arrives at an important sociopolitical moment. Dominant opinion has swung aggressively against immigrants, who, often caught between well-worn and interdependent poles of “immigrants are ruining this country” and the “American Dream,” are denied voice, idiosyncrasy, and personhood. In contrast, Georgiou’s collection is a constellation of twelve short stories which invert, complicate, and ultimately push against such narratives. The Immigrant’s Refrigerator is effective, engaging, and often devastating….. Though The Immigrant’s Refrigerator is not, by and large, a happy read, it is beautiful. With The Immigrant’s Refrigerator, Georgiou has written a book of resistance and of tender storytelling. Important on its own, our current political climate has elevated The Immigrant’s Refrigerator to vital reading.

I hope you’ll read the full review in Issue 109.

NEW BOOK FOR 2018!

The Immigrant's Refrigerator
Fiction. Short Stories.
GenPop Books, 2018

If luck is on an author’s side, a book reaches its audience at the right time. Elena Georgiou’s The Immigrant’s Refrigerator can confidently make this claim. Populated with a cast of characters that shine the light on what it means to be an outsider in the early part of the 21st century, this story collection takes its reader into the private lives of those who have entered a country legally, others who were forced to enter illegally, and the rest who call a country home as a result of birth; characters searching for what they need to sustain them on their journeys towards a future that will not only be a place of refuge, but also one of hope.

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