“...The grapes caught in the frost were intoxicatingly delicious, especially the most frozen berries, especially when they mixed with the taste of tears. Anna knew that not every lucky person is given the opportunity to try this rare combination.” “Compassionate understanding is the color that Natalia Sokolovskaya brings to the current “St. Petersburg text” of Russian literature. Subtle observation, inoffensive humor, light and dynamic intonation make her prose modern in spirit, open to a lively, uninhibited reader" (Olga Novikova, prose writer, member of the editorial board of the New World magazine). The cover design uses the work of Ekaterina Posetselskaya.