The Girl Who Survived

Valery Panyushkin is a prose writer and journalist—a master at storytelling. He is the author of books “Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Prisoner of Silence,” “The Unnoticed Thing,” “Fathers,” “All of My Already There,” and others. In the story “The Girl Who Survived,” the main character learns about the suicide of a friend of his daughter— a college student. Who is to blame for what happened? The organizers from the sinister “death group”? Or maybe his own daughter? Also included in the audio book are four novellas about people who believe in miracles. These stories will make you look more closely at those whom so often no one pays attention to. “His love for his daughter—how is it structured? Does he love his daughter only because she is beautiful? And if his daughter commits a crime, can he still love her? If she’s doing porn, or acting, or has killed someone—can he love her?”