All That Is Solid Melts into Air by Darragh McKeon

As a child of the 1980s, one of the major world events that continues to resonate with me is the nuclear accident at Chernobyl. For that reason alone I was keen to pick up All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Darragh McKeon. But this novel does not stop there, it also provides a scathing look at the last days of Soviet Communism before its ultimate demise.