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Daphne Kouma offers a beautiful performance meticulously detailing 8yearold Anyas experiences Koumas credible Russian accents and outstanding character development make this a story filled with heart that listeners wont soon forget AudioFile Magazine

Perfection has a cost

Reminiscent of Maggie Shipsteads Astonish Me and Julia Phillipss Disappearing Earth Winterland tells the story of a previous era shockingly pertinent today shaped by glory and loss and finding light where none exists

In the Soviet Union in 1973 there is perhaps no greater honor for a young girl than to be chosen to be part of the famed USSR gymnastics program So when eightyearold Anya is tapped her family is thrilled What is left of her family that is Years ago her mother disappeared Anyas only confidant is her neighbor an older woman who survived unspeakable horrors during her ten years in a Gulag campand who unbeknownst to Anya was also her mothers confidant and might hold the key to her disappearance As Anya moves up the ranks of competitive gymnastics and as other girls move down Anya soon comes to realize that there is very little margin of error for anyone

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company