Russian-American journalist working on book on Boston bombing suspects Tsarnaev brothers

American-Russian journalist Masha Gessen is working on a biography of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings last month.

The book is still untitled and there is no release date set, but it will be Gessen’s follow-up to The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, reports The Los Angeles Times. Gessen spent her years as a teen in Boston, but returned to Russia in her 20s for work. She covered the war in Chechnya, where the brothers were born. Her publisher says that she also has a network of sources within Dagestan, the area where their family lived before the brothers went to the U.S.

Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Slate and Newsweek.

According to USA Today, publisher Riverhead said that the book “will follow the brothers from strife-ridden Kyrgyzstan to war-torn Dagestan, and then, as new émigrés, to the looking-glass, utterly disorienting peace and order of Cambridge, Mass.”

The statement continued, “Most crucially, it will reconstruct the struggle that ensued for each of the brothers, between assimilation and alienation, and their alleged metamorphosis into a new breed of home-grown terrorist, with their feet on American soil but their loyalties elsewhere, a split in identity that can be the breeding ground for a deadly sense of mission.”

It is not known if the Tsarnaev family will take part in the book. Tamerlan, 26, was killed during the police shootout, while Dzhokhar, 19, remains in a prison hospital.

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