I watched the first episode of the HBO Chernobyl series last night and loved it so much I had to follow up with a Chernobyl short story.
What both short story and tv show do so well is personalize the tragedy. But the tragedy in Volynets story almost takes a back seat to the coming of age story of its narrator. Yes his father dies from radiation exposure, but there are also plots about being bullied for being Jewish and about immigration.
It's a longer story than I typically read for short story Mondays but still held my attention.
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