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My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabarova (translated from Russian by Lisa C. Hayden) Soviet art Ukrainian journalist Maksym Eristavi hasIn a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia, a young woman finds her future narrowing long before she understands why. Raised to become a beautiful, marriageable daughter, she instead comes up against the limits of expectation as her body begins to resist her seizing, faltering, and plagued by pain and speech disorders in ways no doctor can explain. While her illness progresses, so too does her understanding of herself, as she examines each part