EASTERN EUROPE, THE TERM itself, is a dead stereotype. To give a catch-all name to the multi-layered melting pot of the dozens of ethnic groups from Poland to North Macedonia and all countries in between is a lazy Western construct that bears no resemblance to history. It certainly doesn’t do the land or the people justice.
Amid the highly-charged political debate in the United Kingdom about immigration from Eastern Europe, Jacob Mikanowski’s debut is a
