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Teo grows up in poor health and faces other hardships. She comes to see that she differs from others. She leaves Regali to study in Mirodeni. She then moves to Cartonați. From there, she visits places such as SFârșiți and Imperali. She crosses borders as her private life and work grow less stable. Love and marriage form part of a tale of abuse. It is also a tale of pain and survival. Her trips change her deeply. They lead her to find things she did not expect.

This is Raluca Nagy’s second novel. It blends literary fiction with verse-like ways to explore thought. It draws on myth, belief and the world of today. It looks at culture, faith and the space between life and death. Teo keeps her sense of humour through each crisis. She uses wit and sarcasm to make sense of events. The book plays with words and crosses the lines between genres.

The book forms part of the n’autor fiction series. Romania chose it for the 2022 European Union Prize for Literature. It also earned prose prize nominations in 2022. These were for Leibniz, Observator cultural and Ziarul de Iași. In 2021, it earned a prose nomination for the Sofia Nădejde awards. These awards honour writing by women.