Autobiographical novels come in different forms. Sometimes these are memories reproduced with the scrupulous precision of a historian. Sometimes they are dreamy memoirs about emotional unrest and the vicissitudes of fate. And sometimes it’s the mood that you catch in every line, distracted by the form, wrapping your perception around the content. The third category includes “Riding on a Star” by Pavel Antipov. On the surface - a story about friends whose youth fell in the 2000s. They grow up, play pranks, quarrel and make up, love and feel. But this is just a shell of the meaning. In fact, this is a novel about a city, which is refracted in the perception of the characters. Have you ever been to Minsk? If so, then on the pages of this book you will see something that you would never come into contact with in person. If not, you will understand how different the same city can be, passed through the thoughts, feelings and souls of different people. Even for those who live there all their lives, Minsk will open from an unknown side. It is difficult to say with certainty who or what this novel is about - about young residents of Minsk, looking for their path, or about Minsk, which has found a place in their hearts. There is only an understanding of how much there can be of the same city if everyone carries a piece of it within themselves. The book contains obscene language.