Aunt Motya

Maia Kucherskaya is a prose writer, philologist, author of the books "Modern Paterik. Reading for those who have fallen into despair," "God of Rain," "Lament for the Departed Art Teacher," as well as a biography of Leskov. A neglected genius of the Big Book award. Creator of the "Literary Mastery" program at Vyshek and Creative Writing School. Marina, or Aunt Motya, formerly a teacher of Russian and literature, works as an editor at a newspaper. Adultery is a vulgar entertainment for the heroines of women's novels, she believes, but suddenly finds herself at the center of a romantic relationship. A love affair that she longs for and is ashamed of, stuffy family relationships, the frantic pace of the newspaper, and the leisurely life of a provincial town, along with images of the vanished Russian way of life in the notes of a rural teacher she has read, combine into a grand and captivating narrative. It remains only to understand where real life is, and where its imitation is.