Under Budapest
by Ailsa Kay
Ailsa Kay lays out the literary equivalent of a jigsaw puzzle in Under Budapest, bringing into stark relief the triumphs, calamities, and desperation of two North American Hungarian families and those whose lives they've touched. There's Agnes and Tibor, mother and son, travelling to Hungary for reasons they keep to themselves, he to recover from a disastrous love affair, she to search for a sister gone missing during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. There's Janos, a petty thug, trying to make it rich. And there's Gyula and Zsofi, caught up in a revolution that will change the face of Hungary forever. Ailsa Kay has taught writing and writes short fiction which has appeared in literary journals. Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Canadian Author.