About the book: 2024 / Can random encounters influence fate? Can a stranger make you think about the correctness of your own decisions? Definitely yes, and Masha Traub’s new book “Not Random People,” consisting of a short novel “According to Fate” and short stories about a wide variety of human destinies, is proof of this. The heroes of this book are the most ordinary people with their joys and sorrows. But one day in the life of each of them an event occurs, albeit on a small scale, which changes much, if not everything, in their ideas about their own destiny. And it turns out that there are no random people in the destinies of the characters - they are all non-random. Masha Traub’s prose is therapeutic reading: everyone can recognize themselves and their circumstances in the book’s characters and understand that everything can be fixed.