Discussed in this essay:
Good Will Come from the Sea, by Christos Ikonomou. Translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich. Archipelago. 252 pages. $18.
Something Will Happen, You’ll See, by Christos Ikonomou. Translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich. Archipelago. 276 pages. $18.
Christos Ikonomou’s powerful short stories chronicle the lives—and inner lives—of struggling, working-class Greeks: unemployed, desperately poor, men and women, young and old, the victims of Greece’s decadelong economic crisis and of failed austerity measures, the consequences of massive government debt and a long, catastrophic recession. The two collections—Something…
