“Ice Cream in Waffle Cups” by Maria Boteva is a collection consisting of three piercing and surprisingly honest stories about the lives of teenagers. The heroes of the story “Ice Cream in Waffle Cups” are an unusual family, whose home is open to everyone who finds it difficult to live in the big world . Children and adults can leave at any time - to the sea, to the ends of the world, to unknown distances... And then they will definitely return - to where they are loved and expected. Classmates from the “School on Spichka” together make an important discovery: you can save others only by learning to understand yourself. And the funny and touching girl, the narrator of the story “A Place for a Holiday,” knows how fragile the human soul can be, and loudly says: “Long live the heart!” It is very difficult to talk about this book - its characters and the circumstances in which they find themselves are so different from each other. You just need to read it. Read, stopping, thinking, returning to previous pages, smiling or swallowing with difficulty the lump in your throat. So that later you can feel that you have discovered something important.

Published with the financial support of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications within the framework of the Federal Target Program “Culture of Russia” (2012–2018).