If you’re about to turn thirty, you’ve been fired, your husband has a mistress, your friends abandoned you, there’s no apartment, and all that’s left in your life is a six-year-old child—this is very funny. Especially if your name is Antonina Kozlyuk. Yes, it won’t be easy: you’ll have to keep looking for housing, work, friends, reasons for joy, and even some meaning in what’s happening. But you’ll learn how to make choices, give people chances, be a mother, live according to your conscience, accept others as they are, and not wait for a happy ending. The debut book by journalist Evgeniya Baturina is a coming-of-age novel that has everything: kind humor, characters you want to befriend, a stubborn parrot, an honest ending, and—what’s absolutely necessary—hope.