Co-presented with IMAGE Magazine. Already published to high praise in the U.K., Keizer, Oregon author Gina Ochsner's debut novel, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is the occasion for this welcome return visit. Gina Ochsner's previous books, the story collections People I Wanted to Be and The Necessary Grace to Fall have been part of a body of work that has seen her receive the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Ruth Hindman Foundation Prize, the Guggenheim, the Raymond Carver Prize, and more. Set in post-Soviet Union Russia, this book carries love and loss and the clatter of contemporary life quite marvelously. "The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight joins a vibrant history of magical realist literature in which readers and the book's characters must accept that some things are unknowable ... Ochsner's characters have an Atlas-like ability to hold up their own blackened piece of sky. And it's the unremarkable tremors of daily life that gradually shake off the mud to reveal something infinite and hopeful ... Ochsner is a true artist." – Times (UK).