# The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain - Hardcover

by **Eugene Yelchin** (Author), **Eugene Yelchin** (Illustrator)

**_**An Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Honor Winner**_  
**With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russia.****

Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! 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 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.

### Author Biography

**Eugene Yelchin** is the co-author and illustrator of the 2018 National Book Award Finalist _The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge_, co-written with M. T. Anderson. A Tomie dePaola Illustrator Award Winner, he also received a Newbery Honor for his novel _Breaking Stalin's Nose_. Born in Leningrad, Russian-American Eugene Yelchin now lives in Topanga, California, with his family.

**Number of Pages:** 208

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.9 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 12, 2021

**Award:** Golden Kite (2022)

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

**Interest Level:** Middle Grades, 4-8

**Reading Level:** 4.9

**Point Value:** 3

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- **Price:** 16.99 USD
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