It is difficult to break away from the books of the psychologist Ekaterina Murashova. From this one too. We can say that this is a collection of short stories in the genre of «non-fictional stories» and read them like ordinary prose. But it is also the text of a psychologist. In all stories, there is one cross-cutting plot: parents with children (or without children) come to a consultation with a child psychologist, and everyone has a problem — well, a real puzzle, which the psychologist does not always know how to approach (and readers even more so). To follow the course of his thought, to be surprised at the grace with which, in the end, the riddle is resolved, what a non-trivial way to help the specialist finds — this is the main intrigue and the main pleasure of reading. And you don’t immediately understand that each story, at least in something, at least in one, but very important phrase, reveals and explains something in yourself.
Scooter, 360 p., 2015