For the first time in Russian - “book of the year” according to the New York Times, Esquire, Washington Post and Publishers Weekly, “the best family saga since Jonathan Franzen’s Corrections” (Entertainment Weekly) and an instant bestseller.  Meet Eileen Tumulty. She was born in a poor area of New York, in a panel house, where despair gives way to wild joy depending on the amount taken. Since childhood, she dreamed of living somewhere else, for example, in cozy Bronxville... Thus the American Dream was born.  Eileen works as a nurse, but, just like when she was a child, she wants more from life. She hopes that her husband, a talented young scientist, will help her realize her dream. But Ed Leary is not eager to climb the corporate ladder, does not want to take risks with the purchase of a new house, and is in no hurry to make a career. And gradually Eileen realizes that his indecision has not only psychological roots, that everything is much more serious...