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In her first prose book, a playwright writes about her own life in a small town near Luhansk and later in Luhansk itself. Sarcasm, irony, black humour and tragedy sit side by side, in lively, swearing-filled language. The book catalogues the triggers and archetypes of the shared post-Soviet world: 'what will the neighbours say', 'think you're so clever?', the tired fridge and vacuum cleaner, washed plastic bags and newspaper in the toilet. It is a story of common traumas: of unloved children who must not stand out, of missing sex education, and of trying to live up to the neighbours, within a family web so tangled that readers may want to keep notes on who is whose brother.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Autofiction, Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Ukraine

First published

2025 by Урбіно

Author's age

41 when first published