About the book: 2008 / “We sit and smoke...” is a novel about the search for inner freedom, an apt, subtle sketch of the life of modern Moscow. The main characters are three young girls, each of whom is trying to survive as best she can in the cynical capital. Arbat artist, don’t care, informal, neo-hippie. A porn star, gorgeous, vicious and miserable. A rich kept woman - she was once free, wore a purple mohawk, wandered around the world, and now she buys diamonds for breakfast and spends all her moral resources on pleasing her personal god... What can they have in common? Whose path to freedom is shorter and less thorny?