About the book: 2012 / In the novels "I Planned an Escape..." and "The Mushroom King" and the story "The Return of the Prodigal Husband" Yuri Polyakov examines the intricate mechanism in such detail, which is usually called the ambiguous word “family”, as if trying to tell us some secret that will help some save their family, and others - protect themselves from marriage altogether. Following the author and together with him, we again and again relive the dramas and tragedies that befell his heroes. And, of course, we laugh. Above naivety and limitations; over selfishness and castles in the air; over what is especially dear to us - over ourselves. In a kind of “family cycle” from Yuri Polyakov, as usual, all the qualities characteristic of his prose are present: an exciting plot, sparkling humor and erotic audacity.