New black coat, author Boteva Maria, 978-5-00083-807-5, Kompasgid

Every Wednesday after school, a new girl asks to visit a classmate and sits there until dark, turning off her mobile phone. A thirteen-year-old schoolgirl finds a kindred spirit in her neighbor in the hospital ward and understands that she has never felt so easy with anyone. A guy from a prestigious chemical and biological lyceum teaches a girl from an ordinary school to listen to the wind while sitting on the roof of a house, and saves her father, who is against closing the school, from under the bucket of a concrete mixer... These are only three plots. But behind each of them is a piercing narrative. A story about momentary situations, an irrevocable past and an anxious expectation of the future. A description of life as it is when you are 13 to 15 years old: a weird teacher with whom the students are in love, a father who writes rap, a familiar librarian who treats you to tea with kurabye, a stepfather who saved your life before you were born, a mother with whom it is so cool to walk around the mall and eat hot syrniki at home! The teenage heroes are alive and evoke sympathy. Touching and sympathetic.