The third book published as part of a joint project by the AST Publishing Group and the Konstantin Khabensky Charitable Foundation, this collection brings together short stories about love written by both contemporary authors and children and young adults with brain tumors.

The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.

"Zhiznʹ Alisii Berenson kazhetsi︠a︡ idealʹnoĭ. Izvestnai︠a︡ khudozhnit︠s︡a vyshla zamuzh za vostrebovannogo modnogo fotografa. Ona zhivet v odnom iz samykh privlekatelʹnykh i dorogikh raĭonov Londona v roskoshnom dome s bolʹshimi oknami, vykhodi︠a︡shchimi v park. Odnazhdy pozdnim vecherom, kogda ee muzh Gabriėlʹ vozvrashchaetsi︠a︡ domoĭ s ocherednoĭ sʺemki, Alisii︠a︡ pi︠a︡tʹ raz streli︠a︡et emu v lit︠s︡o....

"Anna Fox lives alone, a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother and their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble and its shocking...

A grad student meets his intellectual match and seals his dark fate when he responds to a newspaper ad seeking a conversationalist.