Housmans is delighted to welcome SISSY ANARCHY and Misha Honcharenko to the shop, to celebrate the publication release of Misha’s first novel, ‘Trap Unfolds Me Greedily.’ Writer, broadcaster and author of ‘This Ragged Grace’, Octavia Bright joins for a live conversation with Misha.

About the book:
Ukrainian artist and poet Misha Honcharenko is a refugee fleeing the war on Ukraine during the ongoing militant invasion of Russian forces. Whilst writing Trap Unfolds Me Greedily, he is the primary caretaker of his mother who suffers with severe health complications and is hospitalised. As a young queer man, Misha sets out on a path of discovery in the face of continued atrocities and displacement. His strength to brave such abject horrors makes its way into his prose, which is relentless, merciless, leaving no reader resolved.

Written with a deep intelligence and a fierce willingness to understand that which terrorises, Trap Unfolds Me Greedily follows Misha as he succumbs to new forms of grief whilst navigating the complexities of the immigration system, his queerness, war crimes, violence, and bereaving the slow passing of his closest relative and protector, his mother. With each phrase, he turns toward the atrocities to make sense of his life, weaving stories that sear with intimate complexity.

It’s deeper than raw and unflinching, Trap Unfolds Me Greedily hurts as it rustles the literary canon and binds you to the suffering with Misha’s original voice; where he invites you to be witness to such powerful forms of sorrow, asking: what does it mean to build a life of one’s own from the rubble, in the wake of what remains?

Bios:

Misha Honcharenko is a Ukrainian queer artist and writer. He started his Instagram profile as a form of art diary, combining weirdness in context of objects and landscapes, exploring himself via photography for over a decade now. Skin of Nocturnal Apple is his first poetry collection published by Pilot Press in 2023. Trap Unfolds Me Greedily is his upcoming debut novel published by SISSY ANARCHY. @michgonch

Octavia Bright is a writer and broadcaster. Her memoir, This Ragged Grace, is published by Canongate and is out in paperback now. @octavia.bright

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