100,000 Words About Love, Including Exclamations
An anthology of 25 writers: stories, essays and lyrical texts on love, desire and intimacy. Its Ukrainian voices range from domestic fiction to an ironic primer and prayer.
Relationships and care
Devotion does not always leave room for freedom, and speaking is not the same as listening. Fiction about intimacy sits alongside memoir-led self-help here. The essays examine particular limits of care: invisible labour, dependency, money and the ability to hear an answer.
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies
A memoir and self-help book about learning everyday care after a chaotic upbringing. Read in Ukrainian as Купи собі той довбаний букет; neither a psychology textbook nor a universal treatment programme.
Felix Austria
A Ukrainian novel set in Stanislaviv, told by Stefa, whose domestic work and devotion bind her to Adelia. Intimacy, inequality and an unreliable voice shape the story.
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
A short speculative story about two teenagers at an unfamiliar party. A separate English ebook edition of a story first collected in Fragile Things.