A review by amandadelbrocco
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach

3.0

It’s been a week and I still can’t parse through my feelings about this book. In some ways, I think it’s probably a pretty accurate depiction of how an orphaned teenage boy with physical disabilities caused by Chernobyl would act when growing up in a hospital with children rotating in and out with various disabilities and sicknesses. In other ways, I found the language and descriptions that were used to be disgusting and cringe worthy, both in the way that he described his fellow patients and the way that he described his every day life.