Visit KALW.org to play back Jen Stout on Rose Aguilar’s 4/18 “Your Call” show. And listen to the 4/22 in-store talk on our Youtube channel.

Night Train to Odesa just won a major award in the UK, and was abridged for BBC Radio 4. It sits between memoir, reportage, and literary journalism, and has been praised for its pacy narrative style – definitely not a dry tome on the war in Ukraine, but on-the-ground reportage, starting in Russia just before the invasion, moving to Odesa, Kyiv, and then eastern Ukraine, as the journalist moved into frontline reporting. It was called a “powerful insight into what it’s like to go it alone in a conflict zone.”

The book was released in paperback April 5th of this year, and Stout is touring in support of its release starting at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York City, with talks at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington, DC and the Atlantic Council, also in Washington, among others. 

The Observer review:  “… a luminous love letter to an embattled nation, as it resists the Kremlin’s imperial takeover. Volodymyr Zelenskiy does not appear. Its heroes are regular Ukrainians.”