This novel is a sweet balm on the hearts of those whose childhood and youth were spent in “stagnant” Soviet times, in a small provincial town in the sixties or seventies. And for representatives of other generations, the novel “Grandmother” is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the wonderful world of that time, with its laws, rules of behavior, life views and even prices and products of those years that are incredible for today’s people... General drunkenness and, at the same time, strong family life, daily street stabbings and - general mutual assistance, rudeness and rudeness along with sincere, kind religiosity... Hipsters and Beatles live in the same block with Komsomol activists and propagandists, prostitutes - with "honest" girls, thieves - with seasoned veterans war and labor.