Moscow is coming soon. Stories

Anna Shipilova's debut collection of stories reflects the reflection of growing up against the backdrop of a rapidly changing reality. This is not only the author's attempt to comprehend the present, but also a look into the future, which seems to be on the threshold. Among its heroes are teenagers, young girls and young women who face violence, betrayal, trauma, and more and more new trials. Their world is unsettled and lacking support, their loved ones are insolvent, the surrounding reality is collapsing before their eyes - they grow up in spite of it. Despite the opening gloomy pictures of the future, which turns out to be overturned into the past, these stories are imbued with an inevitable ironic intonation, which does not allow one to lose the light in the impenetrable darkness. The warehouse manager hands out trousers of one size and a shirt of another, and while she grumbles about the incompleteness, Marina tries on her first uniform. She stretches out her long arms - the fabric on her shoulders is cracking; it is generally difficult for her to find clothes, her mother always alters what she buys. “There’s already a mix-up,” the warehouse manager mutters, and Marina feels like this word is about her—something between an overgrown variety and a type of pear or apple.