Elizabeth Gilbert pulls forthcoming 2024 novel set in Siberia
Elizabeth Gilbert’s anticipated novel, The Snow Forest, was due to release in February 2024. The cover had just been revealed on national TV and pre-orders were open when the one-star Goodreads reviews started to pour in. Why? Because the novel is set in Siberia, and some Ukrainian readers were alleging the novel romanticizes Russia, even though they had not read the book. (The book centers around a family in the 1930s that finds refuge from the Soviet government in the…