A vase is the trigger for Lydia to explode with jealousy over her best friend's life. Vesna, a university professor who tolerates her husband's infidelities and her son's indifference, is at an empowered women's event at the American ambassador's residence. Ellie returns to her childhood home with the secret hope of reuniting with her former lover. No one is safe from Rumena Buzarovska's intelligent, hyper-realistic, and poignant prose, which demonstrates in her new collection of short stories the impossibility of achieving happiness for those who fled their country, but also for those who stayed behind. An emotional atlas that dissects the lives of characters on the brink with literary mastery that makes us laugh, shudder, and reflect all at the same time.
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