“Get ready, we're leaving” is my debut story. The editor fished it out from the piles of folders that were piled on the windowsill, blocking out the daylight. This book is sincere, naive, at the same time tough, uncompromising and piercing, as only a first attempt at writing can be. The title is a non-fictional phrase that I often heard as a child. The story became a bestseller and determined my creative future. Masha Traub