01758cam a2200289 4500 547170209 TxAuBib 20220127120000.0 210121s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021945706 9781536215526 153621552X TxAuBib Yelchin, Eugene. The genius under the table : growing up behind the Iron Curtain / Eugene Yelchin. Growing up behind the Iron Curtain. First edition. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2021. ©2021. 201 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm. "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."-- Provided by publisher. Ages 10 and up. Candlewick Press. 20220127. Yelchin, Eugene Childhood and youth Juvenile literature. Soviet Union History 1953-1985 Juvenile literature. Autobiographies.