Bride and Groom

Galleys mailing to all major review outlets as well as alternative review sources in March 2016 Introduction and blurb requests targeting prominent literary and cultural figures such as Elif Batuman, Karen Armstrong, Anthony Marra, Mikhail Shishkin, Svetlana Alexeivich, Julia Ioffe Russian Embassy in DC and their Consulates in local markets to sponsor author's public appearances in the US planned for festivals, bookstores, and universities throughout fall 2017 First serial rights targeting The Paris Review, the New Yorker, The Guardian, Literal Magazine, Texas Monthly, McSweeney’s, the White Review; One Story, Guernica, Tin House Print publicity targeting literary journals and newspaper book sections Promotion on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Riffle, and other social reading websites Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum) Promotion in the publisher’s e-newsletters for weeks and months surrounding release Promotion at publisher's booth at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP), American Library Association Conference, Modern Languages Association Convention, Texas Book Festival, Brooklyn Book Festival, the American Literary Translators Association Conference, Book Expo America, Dallas Book Festival, and Bay Area Book Festival. Publicity targeting The New Inquiry, The Millions, Full-Stop, The Nervous Breakdown, HTMLGIANT, Three Percent, The Literary Saloon, the Quarterly Conversation, and more Print and digital advertising in select literary journals and magazines and on their websites, such as Words Without Borders, Asymptote, World Literature Today, Literary Hub, Granta, The Rumpus, The White Review, A Public Space, Little Star, The Coffin Factory, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Electric Literature, Music & Literature, and others

A multilayered, magical story of love and fate as two modern city-dwellers grapple with traditional family expectations to find happiness.

One of The Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of 2018

One of World Literature Today's Notable Translations of 2018

One of the Asian Book Review's Best Books of 2018

From one of the most exciting voices in modern Russian literature, Alisa Ganieva, comes Bride and Groom, the tumultuous love story of two young city-dwellers who meet when they return home to their families in rural Dagestan. When traditional family expectations and increasing religious and cultural tension threaten to shatter their bond, Marat and Patya struggle to overcome obstacles determined to keep them apart, while fate seems destined to keep them together—until the very end.