My Grandfather Danced the Best

The book won the Angelus Central European Literature Award (2021).

"My grandfather danced better than everyone else" is a series of stories that make up single story of five families whose children meet at school on the first of September in the first year of Ukraine's independence and remain friends for life. From the twenties in Kharkiv and the destruction of the Les Kurbas theater due to the Holodomor, the Second World War, the nineties, and several waves of emigration to the war in Donbas.

This book is primarily about accepting the past. About how events and circumstances affect us regardless of whether we are aware of them. About endurance and connection of generations, desire for love and acceptance, and loneliness as a consequence or cause. About losses - meaningful or meaningless, justified or senseless. And, most importantly, about the fact that even the lonely, rejected, and broken can survive and live because, despite everything, there is always a chance to become happy in the end.