Тетя Мотя

Maya Kucherskaya is a prose writer, philologist, and professor at the Higher School of Economics. Author of the books “Modern Patericon. Reading for those who have fallen into despondency”, “Crying for the departed art teacher”, the novels “God of Rain” and “Aunt Motya”. Aunt Motya (real name Marina) is a former teacher of Russian and literature, now a proofreader for a weekly newspaper and the heroine of Kucherskaya’s novel of the same name. “Adultery is vulgar entertainment for the inhabitants of women’s novels,” says Aunt Motya, but... suddenly finds herself in the center of a romantic relationship. A love affair that she longs for and is ashamed of, stuffy family relationships, the crazy rhythm of the newspaper and the leisurely life of a provincial town, pictures of the disappeared Russian way of life in the notes of a village teacher she read... All that remains is to understand where is real life and where is its imitation.