Come Out of the Closet

Mikhail Teterin had a difficult childhood. His mother—an unsuccessful actress, cruel and hysterical—either dressed Misha in dresses or wanted to make him into a real man. To survive this experience, he decides to write a novel. That’s how the star Mikhail Shifman is born. Now the publishing house is waiting for a second book, but no one knows that its fate depends on a completely different person.

“Get out of the closet” is an unexpected and sometimes frightening novel. Under the first layer of the story about a creative crisis lies a deep experience of traumatic events and the horror of having to pretend to be someone else—feelings that, with each chapter, become more and more unbearable.