Gypsy's Ring, Red Smalt

Muscovite Nadia comes to the village every summer to visit her grandmother and grandfather and her cousin. Riding down hills on the grass, spreading strawberry jam on bread, losing a ring made of red smalt — this is what summer at 10 years old consists of. And also the feeling of home, where the heroine grows up and experiences her first love.
But not always do childhood memories become a book for children. This plot is for adults or for those who have almost become one.
Nadezhda Gorlova touches on not only childhood but also that adult life that follows from this childhood. According to the author, the story "cannot be called documentary: fiction intertwines with events from various times, but one of the main topos of the story is quite recognizable. This place in the Lipetsk region, which is now marked on maps as the Kurpinka tract. And once, people lived there and were even happy".
Nadezhda's book "Rebecca's Quilt" was included in the long list of "Yasnaya Polyana". And this story made it to the shortlist of the "Short List, or Salamander" contest.