The Unlocked Door

Maria Metlitskaya needs no introduction. Her books are loved, read, passed from hand to hand. They’re the kind that can help in a difficult moment, when you don’t know what to do and who to share with. Under the cover of her new book is a novella and two stories, united by a common thread. Which is better—a bird in the hand or a crane in the sky? What should you choose: to knock for life at a locked door, or to step into an unlocked one behind which we’re waiting for what’s to come? After all, passion doesn’t last forever, and as it turns out, calm, “ordinary” love does.