“The Grandmother Who Wanted to Be a Tree” is a book about people just like you and me. Masha Traub masterfully combines the tragic and the comic, speaks about the most serious things with ease and humor and makes the reader either laugh to tears or feel sad. This book is a collection of short stories about family. About the fact that everyone definitely needs loved ones - those with whom we don’t have to pretend, who will forgive us for failures and listen patiently when we want to share our dreams, even such strange ones as becoming a tree after death. In these stories, any coincidences with reality are not random. Although, it would seem, how can a grandmother become a tree? What mystical force can force a sober person to get lost in an unfamiliar city and change his ideas about his destiny? How can you plan your own death, fail your own funeral and start enjoying life again? But this is all - our most ordinary life in its kaleidoscopic diversity and stunning improbability, but improbability only apparent.