Snow in MaySHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE The stories of Kseniya Melniks debut collection are small town miracles, each a miniature epic. Their focus is Magadan, a town in the Northern Far East of Russia, and the unvisited lives of its inhabitants and emigrants schoolchildren, doctors, teachers, mothers, daughters. Some characters span several stories. Some of their stories span decades and continents. The measure of their telling, though, is invariably