A Notebook in a Check Pattern (Tetrad v Kletochku)

'Hello, checkered notebook'—that's how each entry in Ilya's diary, which he started keeping after moving, begins. In his new city, Ilya desperately wants to make friends, but only a migrant girl and a classmate with strange rumors talk to him. Ilya desperately wants to appear ordinary, but he's afraid of germs and constantly washes his hands. And he really wants to forget about the terrible Day S, but it constantly returns to him in his memories.

«GORKY»:

«Taking as a starting point the emotional peak of “queer panic” - the fear of knowledge that seems capable of undermining fundamental ideas about sex and gender - Nikita Franko carefully, without rude moralizing, leads the reader along the path of acceptance, time after time laying out arguments in favor of conversation, not silence, in favor of knowledge, not prejudice, in favor of involvement, empathy and, ultimately, assistance»


Leonid Parfenov, journalist and TV presenter:

«Nikita Franko’s first book, “Days of Our Lives,” became sensation. With his second book, 'A Notebook in a Box,' the author confirms that only he can write like this—to adults about children, and to children about adults.'