Steppe A Novel by Oksana Vasyakina Halli's Picks Ilya is sick of secrets

Ilya is sick of secrets

but plot is his most breathtaking strength

or whether she just might hold the key to freeing them all

it may destroy the Vivacia and all who love her

Teenage writer Brie Page gets magically transported to the world of stories

Steppe A Novel by Oksana Vasyakina Halli's Picks Ilya is sick of secretsA visceral, stirring novel following a queer literature student traveling across Russia with her estranged father, a long haul truck driver secretly dying of AIDS, from the acclaimed author of Wound A decade after her father walks out on her family, the narrator of Steppe, now a literature student, decides to spend some time with him on the road as he makes deliveries across the vast plains of Russia. Shes attracted and repulsed by his rugged life as