Tatyana Yankovskaya is a prose writer and essayist, lives in the USA. Her first book “MM. A Novel in Stories” was warmly received by critics and readers in Russia and the Russian abroad. The theme of the new story is the drama and joy of childhood, temptations and disappointments, friendship and love, daily small discoveries that determine fate and character. The episodes are put together into a mosaic that recreates the picture of the 1950s and 60s. The text includes excerpts from the author's diaries, which help to feel the atmosphere of those years and the connection between the present and the past.