The second novel by Lyceum Prize winner Ekaterina Manoilo raises the question of guilt and responsibility, well-deserved punishment and family secrets that can break more than one life. Here, as in the debut book “Father Looks West,” the problem of fathers and children is raised, but from a completely different angle. In the schoolyard, the wind carried and swirled dead leaves across the asphalt. On the head of the bust of Dostoevsky, whose name the school bore, sat a plump dove. Louise did not like this bust. Dostoevsky, with his sharp nose, sunken cheeks and piercing gaze, resembled his father. Although my father did not write any novels. Two sisters who are forced to run away from home, a mother who left her family for the sake of a beautiful life, a father looking for a replacement for his wife who betrayed him in his eldest daughter, deception, despair, murder, pursuit - we have in front of us both acute social prose and a road movie, so rarely seen in Russian literature. Suddenly Izi became interested in the Khachaturian sisters. I joined all support groups, disliked anonymous cries of “the law is the law”, “the girls must be judged to the fullest severity”, “these parricides have no place in normal society”, studied the biographies of unfortunate girls more closely than other fans follow the lives of their favorite rock musicians .