'This text is like a Russian road: uneven, with bumps and potholes, with roadworks in the middle. I don't have a navigator for Seryoga's life, so all I can do is navigate by feel.' In her book, Yegan Dzhabbarova attempts to reconstruct the short biography of her half-brother, Sergei, the son of her father's extramarital affair. Following her brother along the route that led to his early and tragic death, the author discovers that Sergei's story reveals the history of the country in the late 1990s and early 2000s: interethnic tension, poverty, the struggle for survival, an addiction epidemic, and an identity crisis. At the same time, addressing the fate of her deceased brother becomes an act of love and remembrance, the only way to connect the discrete events of his life with hers and to bridge the gap—cultural, religious, and existential. Yegan Jabbarova is a writer, poet, essayist, and author of the books 'The Hands of the Women in My Family Were Not for Writing,' 'The Red Alarm Button,' 'Bosphorus,' and 'Romberg's Pose.'