“God's Dolls” by Irina Goryunova is a book of big and small stories about people who could be happy if they were born and lived in an ideal world. Without betrayals and mistakes, without violence and fear. But they are puppets in the experienced hands of the Puppeteer, often deprived of freedom of choice. Becoming happy in an imperfect world is much more difficult, and therefore this happiness is living, real, unimaginable. Someone else's groom and someone else's bride, who met by chance at their own weddings and stayed together, mother, who almost lost her son, a brilliant dancer who literally gave his life for his classmate and received in return world-class fame and a completely different fate than was destined for him... All these stories seem to have been overheard from passers-by on the street, extremely realistic and at the same time incredible. Reading “God's Dolls”, you begin to evaluate failures differently - as opportunities. And successes are sometimes like belated warnings...