Coats

Coats by Naomi Telushkin was selected by Kim Fu as the winner of the 2022 Chapbook Open for The Masters Review. This novella traces Alexa's doomed, decades-long affair with her classmate Isaac, the son of a Russian oligarch. When Isaac resurfaces in her life at the outset of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Alexa's world suddenly shifts. Coats has "e;expansive concerns,"e; as Kim Fu writes in her introduction: "e;a sophisticated understanding of power at every level: between men and women, between classes, between nations, the money that runs the world."e;