“The J Crisis” by Evgenia Baturina is a continuation of her novel "Exit A," which in 2020 entered the top ten best novels in the Russian language according to LiveLib readers. And if in the first book the main heroine Antonina Kozlyuk fought the outside world, then her so-called sister, Josephine, mostly fights the inside world. Josephine Kozlyuk lives a successful, bright, and full life: she successfully loses people, experiences jealousy vividly, and feels it intensely. And, as in any crisis, she learns a lot of new things. For example, that love can destroy you not only wicked fate, cruel parents, or a third wheel. We cope with it on our own much better! So who will help Josephine—Antonina’s sister, the famous artist, talking animals, or the revolutionary Decembrists? Unexpected plot twists are here just as abundant as corridors and guests in the “not-so-nice apartment,” and humor, jokes, and absurd situations are as plentiful as croissants, little pies, stracciatella, ciabatta and… And why are you still reading this blurb instead of the novel?!