Domovaya Love

Evgenia Nekrasova is a writer, one of the founders of the School of Literary Practices, a laureate of the "Lyceum" prize for the cycle of prose "Unhappy Moscow" and the "Strannik/NOS" prize for the novel "Skin". Her debut novel "Kalechyna-Malechyna" and the collection of stories "Sister-moms" were included in the short lists of the "NOS" prize. Many of Nekrasova's texts have been made into performances, including the story from the collection "Domovaya Love" "Kamutkan" directed by Svetlana Zemlyakova. "Domovaya Love" consists of stories, novellas, and poems about the search for one's place, overcoming loneliness, and breaking down established norms; an artistic exploration of home and family. As in her previous books, folkloric motifs are embedded in the depiction of Russian everyday life. "Nekrasova's heroes seem to have long been living a separate independent life: performances are staged based on her texts, artworks are created, songs are written. The magic of Zhena's plots, it seems to me, lies in the fact that she accepts this world in all its beauty and imperfections, showing both fragile and astonishingly resilient characters as equally strong and important. And for good measure, Nekrasova reminds us: even if everything seems lost, there is always room for the marvelous and the inexplicable." Valeria Martyanova, book blogger and voice of audiobooks. "The heroines of Nekrasova speak with ancient deities and rename the world around, in other words, they build and reshape it for themselves. They have no privileges for this, and they have no one to rely on. Perhaps this is their strength." Oksana Vasyakina, poet. "Magical realism deceived us. The time for magical pessimism has come." Yegor Mikhailov, Afisha Daily. Evgenia Nekrasova's website: https://bigfolkcreature.ru/