What if we assume that pigeons read scraps of our newspapers near the subway and books in a landfill? That not only people, but also dogs, trees, and ring fingers have developed consciousness? Platelets? Bricks, curtains? A crust of bread in a prisoner's holey pocket? A station platform where the living and the dead gather? If all the creatures and objects in this world watch us, master our language, understand us (and we, of course, do not) and speak? Don’t believe it? Everything will change radically after you cross the space of the brightly surreal - and frighteningly realistic novel by Inga K. The author creates a shocking model - no, not a conventional future (the future is fake, as the heroes claim). A beautiful and terrible model of today’s evening, or, at most, of tomorrow’s morning. When everywhere “prose” has already defeated “poetry” and poetry groups, like youth subcultures, are persecuted by armed berserker troops. When demonstrators are shot. When a great poet is kidnapped and forced to turn into a literary black... one who is invested with the highest power, has everything (except talent), but dreams of the glory of a poet. How to survive in this fiercely bright world? How to breathe? How to love and save? Read - and think for yourself.

Inga Kuznetsova is a poet and prose writer, translated into eight languages of the world, winner of the Triumph and Moscow Account awards. Author of five books of poetry and the acclaimed novel Patchwork (2017). "The Inbetween" is the author's second novel.