About the book: 2017 / At the center of the narrative of this sometimes shocking, harsh and painful book is a Woman. The heroine, a parachutist and hot air balloon pilot in her youth, having experienced a personal tragedy, is forced to do a completely different business in another country, one might say, through the looking glass: she is a cosmetologist, lives and works in New York. A whole string of strange characters passes before her eyes, because due to the nature of her current profession, the heroine is faced with fantastic, today almost ordinary “gender inverters”, with discouraging and even repulsive pictures of the life of society. And, oddly enough, from this garland, in the words of the heroine, “the cripple,” grows a grotesque, tragic, insignificant and lofty image of modern love. “This story, in which there is not a single swear word, should have been published under the heading 18+, but better than 40+... - because everything in it is so naked and defenseless, cynical and piercingly intimate that in many scenes the color of shame fills the face and splashes in the heart - a confused human heart, at all times bravely and stubbornly dreaming of only one thing: love... » Dina Rubina