On Christmas Eve, Lena wrote a long letter to Katya inside a used copy of The Nightingale and mailed it to St. Petersburg. She didn’t expect a reply.
But on New Year’s Day, her phone buzzed with a VK voice message. Katya’s voice, tearful and raw: “Mama, I didn’t know. Why didn’t you tell me you were that strong?”
And tucked inside every copy of The Great Alone and The Nightingale was a slip of paper with the VK group’s address and four words:
On Christmas Eve, Lena wrote a long letter to Katya inside a used copy of The Nightingale and mailed it to St. Petersburg. She didn’t expect a reply.
But on New Year’s Day, her phone buzzed with a VK voice message. Katya’s voice, tearful and raw: “Mama, I didn’t know. Why didn’t you tell me you were that strong?”
And tucked inside every copy of The Great Alone and The Nightingale was a slip of paper with the VK group’s address and four words: