The seventh book including stories and novellas created by Dina Rubina in 2006-2010. An amazing picture of the life of a great-grandmother-gypsy was recreated by a distant relative; the tragic story of Adam and Miriam is told by the participant of the events; the dramatic family story of the grandfather and Laima is described by the granddaughter.

Gaelle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family, and send them to a detention camp for deportation to an unknown, ominous fate. The local German military commandant makes Gaelle's family estate outside Lyon into his headquarters. Her father and brother are killed by the...

"At the center of the narrative of this sometimes shocking, sharp and painful book is a Woman. The heroine, a parachutist and hot air balloon pilot in her youth, having experienced a personal tragedy, is forced to do a completely different business in another country, one might say, through the looking glass: she is a cosmetologist, lives and works in New York. A whole string of strange characters passes before her eyes, because, due to the nature...

In California's plush Marin County, Page Clarke waits alone at a hospital to discover whether her daughter will survive a car crash involving several teenagers. As usual, her husband is out of town, so Page leans on the handsome Trygve, father of her daughter's best friend.