Our Little Life

Maria Metlitskaya tells stories about ordinary people—they don’t fly into space, don’t shine on the stage, and you won’t find them on the Forbes list.
That’s why their stories are read in one breath—they could have happened to us.
The author lifts the curtain on someone else’s life, but the reader keeps wanting to say: “That’s me.” That’s me crying in the airport, seeing off a beloved and knowing I’ll never see him again. That’s me meeting my first love and realizing I won’t be able to enter this river a second time. That’s me suddenly understanding that youth has flown by—too fast to get it back.
And everyone will say: Metlitskaya’s heroes have overcome all the trials of fate. Then I can, too—I’ll manage.