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Book Blurb
Spanning between World War II and the Russia-Ukraine conflict and based on real events, Your Presence Is Mandatory (Bloomsbury) is a riveting debut novel about a Ukrainian Jewish WWII veteran with a lifelong secret, the repercussions for his family, and the grace they find in the course of their survival. Your Presence Is Mandatory is longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and is translated into six languages.
short bio
Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of a debut novel, Your Presence Is Mandatory (Bloomsbury), longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and translated into six languages. Her nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, CNN, Harper’s Bazaar, Time, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Telegraph, KQED, and elsewhere. Sasha grew up between Ukraine and Russia before immigrating to the U.S. at the age of 13.
long bio
Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of a debut novel, Your Presence Is Mandatory (Bloomsbury), which is longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and translated into Italian, French, Portuguese, German, Finnish, and Hebrew. Sasha grew up between Ukraine and Russia before immigrating to the U.S. at the age of 13. She has a BA from UC Berkeley and an MA in journalism from New York University. She has written for the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, CNN, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Telegraph, KQED, Narrative, and elsewhere. Before becoming an author, she cofounded the first coworking space in San Francisco, started a wedding PR agency, and traveled alone around the world. Sasha is the recipient of a Solas Award for Best Travel Writing, a North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) Award, and a Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Fellowship from UC Berkeley. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and children. www.sashavasilyuk.com.
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lifestyle photos of sasha with book
Photo credit: Diana Burman
