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Historical Fiction Subscription Box: November Selection: Your Presence Is Mandatory: A Novel by Sasha Vasilyuk

Historical Fiction Subscription Box: November Selection: Your Presence Is Mandatory: A Novel by Sasha Vasilyuk

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Love Always, White Rose Subscription Box

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Love, Always, White Rose is White Rose Books & More's subscription service. Pick a genre and it will auto renew each month, or go in and change your genre anytime. 

Each month, you’ll choose from our ten carefully curated upcoming fiction paperback releases that center exciting story telling, perfect to help line the shelves of your TBR. Or choose a select hardcover for your child or a child you love. 

At just $20/month and FREE SHIPPING , this is perfect for readers on a budget looking for something new to read hand selected by the experts.

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  • You Pick: On the 16th of each month, we reveal our ten selections. Choose your favorite by the 15th or recieve the same genre over and over again.
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About this month's selection:

From Bloomsbury Publishing, Releasing on November 4, 2025

Winner of the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature | Gold Medal Winner for the 94th Annual California Book Awards | Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about the price of secrecy, the weight of lies, and one man's drive to protect his family from his past.

Ukraine, 2007. War veteran Yefim Shulman was beloved by his children, wife, and coworkers. But in the days after his death, his widow, Nina, finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase. Yefim had a lifelong secret, and his confession forces Nina and her children to reassess the husband, father, and grandfather they thought they knew and the bonds they'd formed with him and each other.

Following one family over the course of 70 years and three generations, Sasha Vasilyuk shines a light into the shadowy corners of a marriage marred by secrecy and the sacrifices people make to survive under a paranoid. Compassionate, gripping, and intimate, Your Presence Is Mandatory is "at once a historical epic, an engrossing family saga, and an astute examination of morality, survival, hope, and love" (Lara Prescott).

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