← Miroslav PenkovEast of the Westby Miroslav PenkovInterconnected stories of lives unfolding across post-Soviet Eastern European landscapeFind on Amazon↗About the authorMiroslav PenkovBulgarian-American author whose East of the West is a celebrated collection of stories about Bulgarian life, memory, and the communist legacy, told with lyrical beauty and dark humor.More by Miroslav PenkovStork MountainReturn to ancestral village in Bulgaria becomes journey of family reckoning→Lubopitniyat geograf→Blagoumieto na Paraskeva→Razkazi→