Linden Wife

The families depicted by Dina Rubina are far from ideal. Everything is like everyone else. A single mother raising a son; a "weekend" dad; a brother and sister whose father leaves home in hopes of finding new love… All around are "character bumps", everywhere "pinches, pokes, and tickles", "squabbles over squabbles"… It is no coincidence that the boy, a character in the story "Thornbush", declares to his perpetually busy mother: "I will find myself another woman!" But at the same time, Dina Rubina is an exceptional master in depicting familial love, its creative power. Parental love can dissolve stones, melt ice, and warm from beyond the grave. There is nothing more significant than this "Great Brotherhood of Nurturers"!