Oleksandr Mykhed began writing the book "Job's Call Sign" on the first day of the large-scale invasion that took place in the eighth year of the russian-Ukrainian war. The author worked on the book for thirteen months and wrote about what he experienced with his wife, about his parents, who were in Bucha for almost three weeks during the occupation. About how we change, how our everyday language becomes the language of war, once familiar and important things become painful triggers, and certain feelings and emotions are those that you want to forget, but at the same time remember forever.
This book is not exclusively a reflection of the author, but rather the opposite: he collected and expressed the thoughts and experiences of many Ukrainians during the first year of the invasion. Ukrainians, like Job of the Old Testament, are now experiencing terrible losses. How do we lose our closest friends and homes? How are Ukrainian children changing and what kind of post-memory will the next generation have? After all, who is each of us in this war?
