Elena Chizhova is the author of the novels “The Time of Women”, the “RUSSIAN BOOKER” award, “Orestes and Son”, “The Terracotta Old Woman”, “Lavra”, “Little Tsakhes”, “Half-Breed”. Like a mushroom does not grow without a mycelium, This is how a person grows from the past: country, city, family. But what to do if the connection with the parental home takes painful forms? Isn’t it better to break it off, thereby changing your life? In the new book “Planet of Mushrooms” the main characters are he and she, a man and a woman. A translator, mired in routine work, and a successful businesswoman. He is an intellectual for whom a broken lock is a monstrous problem. From the age of fifteen she was used to deciding everything herself. It would seem that the creatures are from different planets. But are they really that different from each other?