About the book: 2021 / A young poetess takes her mother’s ashes from the Volgograd region to Siberia to bury them in her homeland next to her grandmother and aunt. From Volgograd to Moscow, from Moscow to Novosibirsk and Irkutsk by plane and then fourteen hours by bus through the taiga to the small dead-end city of Ust-Ilimsk. Carefully documenting the ritual of farewell, complicated by bureaucratic red tape, the heroine embarks on a journey to understanding sexuality, femininity and death, as well as a new way of describing these experiences. Oksana Vasyakina - poetess, writer, essayist, first degree laureate of the Lyceum Prize» (2019).