Uninhabited

A novel that reflects both trauma literature and the prose of people in their thirties, telling about the heroine’s journey through the complicated theme of infertility toward self-discovery and understanding her true desires.

This is the realm that, before Mlynchik, no one had explored with such courage...

Tatyana Mlynchik (1987) is a writer from Saint Petersburg, author of the book “Catching Lightning with a Leech,” nominated for the “FIKSHN-35” and “National Bestseller” awards.

The central figure of her new novel “Uninhabited” is a woman with a strong character and physical endurance. She can do what many can’t: run a marathon, write a book, climb Elbrus.

…but she can’t get pregnant.

Left alone with this forbidden topic, she plunges into her past to figure out whether she truly wants to become a mother and what price she is willing to pay for it. She resists societal pressure, defends her right to a personal decision, spends years undergoing medical examinations, surgeries, and failed IVF attempts—trying to understand her body in search of hope, freedom, and self-knowledge.

“Uninhabited” tells about choice, freedom of choice, and responsibility for it.

“Uninhabited” is about relationships with one’s own body and the limits of what’s possible.

“Uninhabited” is about fate, despair, and grim inevitability; about the strength of spirit and a steady smile in the face of destiny and what can’t be avoided.

…and about hope that will eventually win.