Everything Is Illuminated Valentine

Everything Is Illuminated ValentineA young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive a truth hidden

So long as she doesn’t repeat old mistakes

he is inevitably implicated in their quarrels

From brave and bold to creative and clever

Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

With few contacts and only a shaky grasp of English

Ruthless men have tracked it for years

This audacious exploration into the nature of love–its appetite

a massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap

dying one by one in the dirt

Better watch out

In “Exhalation

and emotional upheavals of adolescence--particularly high school--complicated by the unique challenges of being a transgender teen