The Last Ferry of Zabolotye

Nastasya Renjina, the author of the bestseller «Grandmother Said to Sit Quietly», opens a series of regional prose «Window to Russia» with a story from her native Vologda Region.

In the northern village of Zabolotye, on the banks of the Sheksna River, nature and human destinies intertwine into a tight knot. The ferryman Mikhail loves this harsh land and the mysterious sunken church in Krokhino, rising from the water like a ghost of the past. He clings to his roots and believes that even here a future can be built. His wife Ira, gasping from poverty and hopelessness, sees only a swamp of decline in their hometown, where every house holds memories of someone else's grief and unatoned sins.

«The Last Ferry of Zabolotye» is Nastasya Renjina's new book, the author of the bestseller «Grandmother Said to Sit Quietly». This is a poignant novel about the Russian North and the dying villages of the Vologda Region, about the power of place, family traumas, and the painful choice between native land and the future.