The second novel by Licey Prize winner Ekaterina Manoylo raises questions of guilt and responsibility, deserved punishment, and family secrets that can ruin more than one life. Here, as in her debut book, Father Looks West, the issue of fathers and children is raised, but from a completely different angle.

Two sisters forced to flee home, a mother who left her family for the high life, a father seeking a replacement for his betrayed wife in his eldest daughter, deception, despair, murder, and pursuit—before us is both socially acute prose and a road movie, a rare find in Russian literature.