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The Genius Under the Table by Eugene Yelchin

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The Genius Under the Table

Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

by Eugene Yelchin

Narrator Eugene Yelchin

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Length 2 hours 52 minutes

Language English

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How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents’ dream that he become a national hero when he doesn’t even have his own room? He’s not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table, and the doodles that could change everything. With equal amounts of charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family.

Children's Art

Eugene Yelchin is a Russian-born American author, illustrator, painter, and conceptual artist. Breaking Stalin's Nose, a middle-grade novel that he wrote and illustrated, received a Newbery Honor and has been translated into ten languages. He currently resides in California with his wife and their two children. For more information, visit him at eugeneyelchinbooks.com.