The Georgia of In
Bloom, which is set in 1992, is no country for young women. Life is
relentlessly bleak for 14-year-old Eka (Lika Babluani) and Natia (Mariam
Bokeria), who are surrounded by joyless, mean-spirited adults, ignored or
hectored at home, and harassed after school, Eka by bullies and Natia by a
macho suitor who refuses to take no for an answer. But Natia’s incandescent courage,
Eka’s quiet self-reliance, and both girls’ fierce loyalty and love for each other
keeps a flickering ray of hope alive in this ferociously well-acted story of
life in the struggling post-Soviet republic.
Written for The L Magazine
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