I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This

by Eugene Yelchin
Candlewick Press © 2025
Elizabeth Bicknell, editor
Amy Berniker, art director

Reviews

“With this book Eugene Yelchin joins the community of author / artists who have dared to examine their troubling pasts with honesty, insight and cleansing humor.”

—David Small, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Stiches: A Memoir

“A bold and unblinking memoir . . . Timely, poignant, and unsettling.”

M. T. ANDERSON, author of National Book Award winner The Astonishing Life of Octavian Mothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party

“By turns heartbreaking and gut-wrenching . . . Its resonance is inescapable. So is its beauty.”

—Candace Fleming, author of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner The Family Romanov