The law of the shell. Larisa Romanovskaya

What will remain in the memory of friends about each of us? Will it be a bright mark, like an imprint of the Nautilus shell on the marble column of the metro? Or will they forget us even before we leave? And how to believe that the end is always the beginning of something new?

ten years, he ends the fourth grade, loves computer games and walk with school friends. Vitya and her mother live in Moscow, and dad works abroad. But suddenly parents make a difficult decision. Victor and mother will fly away from Russia very soon. A month, week, day, day...

life changes, even if you don’t want it at all. There is. The choice for Vitya.

In 2020, the story entered the short list of the eleventh season of the competition for the best work for children and adolescents to the book.

from the author:

seven years ago, my family moved to the United States, and I stayed in Russia. This was a difficult decision, I doubted the last - whether to let my son go. It was difficult to make a decision, and then not to change your mind. I was saved by psychological defense-I recorded what happened to us, what we felt, what we were talking about, how my son said goodbye to Moscow... I had no plans, I wrote down so as not to go crazy...

several years have passed. I had several books for children and adolescents. I collaborated with my parents magazines. Once the editorial office of the women's magazine asked me to write a few stories about my mother and child. These stories were printed in periodicals, then published a separate book. And the readers asked me how the fate of the heroes would be further. And once I realized that the time came to write down the story of a daze, farewell, the story that changes is interesting, but hard.

this is how this story was.

in 2020, it I entered the short list of the eleventh season of the competition for the best work for children and adolescents to the Book.