Babushka, kotoraya hotela stat derevom

«Babushka, kotoraya hotela stat derevom» - kniga o lyudyah, takih zhe, kak my s vami. Masha Traub virtuozno soedinyaet tragicheskoe i komicheskoe, s legkostyu i yumorom govorit o samyh sereznyh veschah i zastavlyaet chitatelya to smeyatsya do slez, to grustit.
Eta kniga - sbornik novell o seme. O tom, chto kazhdomu obyazatelno nuzhny blizkie - te, s kem ne nado pritvoryatsya, kto stanet proschat nam neudachi i terpelivo slushat, kogda my zahotim podelitsya mechtami, pust i takimi strannymi, kak stat posle smerti derevom.
V etih rasskazah lyubye sovpadeniya s realnostyu nesluchayny. Hotya, kazalos by, kak babushka mozhet stat derevom? Kakaya misticheskaya sila mozhet vynudit trezvomyslyaschego cheloveka poteryatsya v neznakomom gorode i izmenit predstavleniya o svoey sudbe? Kak mozhno zaplanirovat sobstvennuyu smert, provalit sobstvennye pohorony i snova nachat radovatsya zhizni? No eto vse - nasha s vami samaya obychnaya zhizn v ee kaleydoskopicheskom raznoobrazii i oshelomlyayuschem nepravdopodobii, no nepravdopodobii lish kazhuschemsya.