In this surreal novel a cast of characters who live in the same dilapidated apartment complex in post-Solviet Russia also share their pasts, hopes, and fears. At times the prose is both beautiful and heartbreaking as we follow Tanya (always with her notebook!), a woman who is a chronicler of life as it is now, as it has been, and also her dreams as they might be.
--Patty Recommends