![]() ![]() His grandmother has a cabinet full of items with which she can bribe institutional gatekeepers. When Mitya is four, the Soviet Union collapses, and he and his family find themselves in a rapidly changing - frequently for the worse - Russia. ![]() I didn’t realize I wanted to wear “women’s” clothes or makeup until I was in high school, though, and there was another crucial difference between myself and this novel’s protagonist. I also rarely felt like I could relate to my family. I was also a quiet child with few friends who preferred to observe. He feels an immense barrier between himself and his family and doesn’t feel they truly witness or value him. He discovers that he enjoys, and even has a talent for, dressing up in his mother’s clothes and doing his makeup. ![]() He’s a quiet child with few friends, who prefers to observe the goings on of those around him from the sidelines. Mitya, the protagonist of Katya Kazbek’s poignant, lyrical, heartbreaking debut novel Little Foxes Took Up Matches, was born in 1987. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now. ![]()
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