Stories I Stole, Wendell Steavenson (softcover)

Wendell Steavenson spent two years in Armenia’s northern neighbor Georgia. Stories I Stole captures the exuberance of a fledgling nation of local despots, mountain tribes, blood feuds, and an unlimited flow of red wine. From former president Eduard Shevardnadze’s rigged elections to horse races high in the mountains; from the eerie roadside artifacts of the Soviet era to the farcical power outages in the dead of winter, here is Georgia: weird, invigorating, and still coming to grips with the legacy of its most famous son, Stalin. “This unusual and beautifully worded tale is, mercifully, nothing like the usual foreign correspondent’s end-of-term book” (The Times). Stories I Stole, is a candid, engaging, and quietly lyrical book about a land and people unlike any other.