Kapka Kassabova

When Kapka Kassabova was a Child, the border between Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and it swarmed with soldiers and spies. She remembers playing on the beaches of the Black Sea only miles from where an electrified fence bristled, its barbs pointed inward toward the enemy: the citizens of the totalitarian regime. In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kassabova...