NEITHER SAINTS NOR ANGELS

By deconstructing emotions and presenting a family's struggles, the author promotes a reckoning with history. "NEITHER SAINTS NOR ANGELS" spans three generations since World War II, recalls the communist era, and portrays the present-day Czech Republic through the experiences and uncertainties of Kristýna Pilna, a 45-year-old divorced dentist born on the day of Stalin's death who "always wanted to live a different life than the one I'm living."