Complex people
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Complex people
9.99 €
"Lyalya was born in a bookcase, but how she got there is a mystery."
This family joke was simply a statement of fact: since Lyalya started reading at three, she'd swept up everything she could get her hands on, from the magazine "Murzilka" to a collection of Hugo's works.
Lyalya's mother was different—to strangers, to her own, and to herself. For Lyalya, her mother was a mass of fears: all around her were dangers. For example, the danger that she would think she was smart or beautiful. When people on the street said, "What a beautiful girl you have," her mother would quickly say, "You're not beautiful, you're ordinary!" or "Don't listen, don't believe me, you're just like everyone else."
This revealing novel about the complex mother-daughter relationship is written from an unexpected perspective: mothers are also teenagers at heart. Why did our mothers treat us the way they did? Do they understand us, and do we understand them? Maybe we should understand, accept, forgive, build a bridge so that, holding onto the flimsy railings, with laughter and humility we can cross to the other shore, where love awaits us?..
This family joke was simply a statement of fact: since Lyalya started reading at three, she'd swept up everything she could get her hands on, from the magazine "Murzilka" to a collection of Hugo's works.
Lyalya's mother was different—to strangers, to her own, and to herself. For Lyalya, her mother was a mass of fears: all around her were dangers. For example, the danger that she would think she was smart or beautiful. When people on the street said, "What a beautiful girl you have," her mother would quickly say, "You're not beautiful, you're ordinary!" or "Don't listen, don't believe me, you're just like everyone else."
This revealing novel about the complex mother-daughter relationship is written from an unexpected perspective: mothers are also teenagers at heart. Why did our mothers treat us the way they did? Do they understand us, and do we understand them? Maybe we should understand, accept, forgive, build a bridge so that, holding onto the flimsy railings, with laughter and humility we can cross to the other shore, where love awaits us?..
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