Anthropologist Olga Drenda's book explores the visual everyday life of the Polish perestroika era. Drawing on the concept of hauntology (haunt - ghost, ontology), Olga collects signs of a bygone era, from street fashion to the design of video rental tapes, simultaneously purging her respondents' memories of both nostalgic embellishments and the accretions of later experience that distort the original images. The book draws on interviews recorded with witnesses to the collapse of the Polish People's Republic, as well as a rich photo archive, partially reproduced in this edition. Drenda reveals a gap filled with the fantasies and dreams of Poles. She does not judge, does not keep a book of complaints and grievances, and does not use irony, although the stories she tells themselves beg for such a perception. Agnieszka Warnke, Culture.pl. The New Anthropology Series, edited by Professor Alexey Yurchak, University of California, Berkeley.