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Lesya is an ordinary teenage girl who writes poems and argues with her mother. But childhood ends without warning, and at one point the girl stops understanding what is happening to her. Peers all around talk about their first sexual experiences, the best friend starts dating a girl, and Lesya herself seems to be a step or two behind. She really wants to understand and realize the desires that wake up in her body, and at the same time she is not ready to do all this just to fit into the company.

This is the story of awareness of one's own physicality. A story about illusions and prohibitions, shame and self-doubt, friendship and first love. But first of all, this is a book about the formation of girls' sexuality, a story about an imperfect and painful growing up.

Lyudmila Kolb is an editor, journalist, co-author of the book "How to want and get everything (but it's not accurate)".