“Christina’s Red Notebooks” is a collection of short prose by Alexandra Shalashova, united by the theme of everyone’s fragility and vulnerability. Here are stories bordering on autofiction, and brief captured scenes from everyday life, and mysterious tales. By recording the everyday and sharpening the focus on what seem like insignificant details, the author manages with surprising accuracy to convey the feeling of the world’s precariousness. This is piercing prose about love, loneliness, pain and healing, memory and oblivion.