Lyudmila Ulitskaya’s new book - autobiographical prose and essays - was written and compiled over a total of twenty years, in parallel with “Sonechka”, “The Kukotsky Incident”, “Daniel Stein...”, “The Green Tent”. It is all the more interesting to see how literature is melted out of the “garbage of life” and how it becomes “sacred” for the author, and it is no longer possible to throw away anything - not the fragments and shards of the past, not thoughts, experience, knowledge, guesses, gains, losses... This book is fearless in her frankness and trust. For the first time, Ulitskaya lets the reader into her world, enters into dialogue with him not only through artistic images, but directly and trustingly - eye to eye.