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“The disease is transmitted through the language of denial: it passes to the next generation through secrets, accusations and lies.” – These were the words Mira Zhdanovich heard at a meeting of the Adult Children of Alcoholics Anonymous (ACAA). However, Mira never attended: one sunny day she met a stranger who offered her an alternative path to self-liberation. A family saga, a socio-psychological drama, sketches and memoirs, an expatriate’s lament for a lost home where hearts were broken, where happiness never lived…. or perhaps it did live after all?
Yana Gultsiaeva is a translator, a 2017 graduate of the Department of Polish Language and Literature at the Philological Faculty of Belarusian State University. One of the winners of the “10+10: Minsk” short story contest (2018), she is a graduate of the School of Young Writers (2020). Since 2021 she has been living in France, where she translates Belarusian and French poetry, short prose and drama.
You can read an excerpt from the novel here.


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