About the book: 2015 / Lina is fifteen years old. It may seem that she is the most ordinary girl, because she has everything like everyone else: friends, her favorite activity, dad and mom. But this is not true at all. Lina's best friend is not one of her classmates, but a neighbor, pianist Kira Sergeevna. Lina is also friends with old Gertrude, a talking tree that grows in her yard. More than anything else, Lina loves collecting unusual things - dresses, hats, various trinkets - and even set up a whole museum in her closet. Lina’s dad teaches literature and loves to talk about Joyce. And mom... You can’t explain it that easily, but she is also very unusual, cheerful and inventive. She and her dad separated a long time ago, but they get along great. Mom and Lina are almost inseparable. They go to their favorite coffee shop together, walk, watch passers-by, and write stories about them. Only now, besides Lina, my mother also has an artist. Mom is happy with him, and in general he is handsome and smart, but for some reason Lina doesn’t like him. And then one day, when her mother rushes to the artist again, Lina decides to tell this story... “My Mother Loves an Artist” is a teenage story by a young writer, playwright and journalist Anastasia Maleiko. For this book in 2013, Anastasia received the International Children's Literary Prize named after. V. P. Krapivina.