A Man Who Wanted to Get Warm

“I’m divorced, but I still believe in love…” — with these lines Vyacheslav Prakh’s confession book begins, telling what is often not accepted to say out loud. “I’m cold, I want to warm up—why can’t we warm each other? Why can’t we love each other, or at least stop clinging, forgive, and live in peace? I don’t know how and I don’t want to love you the way you want—and it’s mutual. Let me go! No? Why? We are broken birds, falling upward; divorce is grief for frozen bodies and frozen souls. I’m leaving to save myself, you, and the children.” The author created a straightforward, sometimes harsh book about how two adults froze while staying together. But remember: warmth exists, and it’s waiting to warm up cold souls.