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Fall River is a multi-dimensional exploration of how family history, Ukrainian roots, and European war shaped the personal destinies of three Ukrainian Americans who were born in Fall River, grew up in interwar Poland, and returned to an America that was as alienating as it was welcoming.
Fall River is a multi-dimensional exploration of how family history, Ukrainian roots, and European war shaped the personal destinies of three Ukrainian Americans who were born in Fall River, grew up in interwar Poland, and returned to an America that was as alienating as it was welcoming. Narrated from different, though intersecting, perspectives, Fall River paints a complex portrait of American emigrants forced by fate to become Ukrainian refugees and European immigrants.
Alexander J. Motyl (b. 1953, New York) is a writer, painter, and professor. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2008 and 2013, he is the author of six published novels, Whiskey Priest, Who Killed Andrei Warhol, Flippancy, The Jew Who Was Ukrainian, My Orchidia, and The Taste of Snow. His poems have appeared, or will soon appear, in 34th Parallel, The Battered Suitcase, Counterexample Poetics, Istanbul Literary Review, The Green Door, The Literary Bohemian, Mayday, New York Quarterly, Orion Headless, Red River Review, and Red Savina Review.
He is currently working on a satire of intellectuals, policy makers, and businesspeople called Ardor House. He has done performances of his fiction and poetry at the Cornelia Street Café, the Bowery Poetry Club, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, the Ukrainian Museum in New York, and a variety of universities. For several years, Motyl collaborated with Ultra Violet, the recently deceased Andy Warhol Superstar, on a play, “Andy vs. Adolf.” He is also author of a one-line play, Waiting by Godot.
Motyl’s artwork has been shown in solo and group shows in New York City, Philadelphia, and Toronto and is on display on the Internet gallery, Artsicle.
He teaches in the political science department at Rutgers University-Newark and is the author of six academic books, numerous scholarly and policy articles, and a weekly blog on “Ukraine’s Orange Blues” on World Affairs Journal. Motyl lives in New York City.
