Ten years after her parents’ divorce, the daughter meets her father, a truck driver, and travels with him across central Russia and the southern regions. “Steppe” is a new novel by Oksana Vasyakina, forming a duology together with the debut “Wound”: the first book is about the daughter’s farewell to deceased mother; the second is about the relationship with my father. Returning her thoughts to the cab of a truck rushing across the steppe, the heroine reflects on the men whose youth was in the 1980s and 1990s; about the diseases from which many of them die in silence; about how time breathed out the father, leaving him on the cold wind of the future; about Russia, which does not know what to do with its own history. Oksana Vasyakina is a writer, winner of the Lyceum (2019) and NOS (2021) awards.