About the book: 2020 / Monica is thirteen, and she realizes that the serene world in which we live in childhood is not forever. Now she is already twenty-seven, and she is the mistress of a refined intellectual. Professions flash by: teacher, journalist, copywriter... Ten years later she has a house, a husband and a very independent daughter, Maiken. At forty-six, Monica is the muse of an unrecognized genius and the owner of a farm with restless chickens. Maybe this is happiness? At fifty-two, she looks in the mirror and suddenly notices how much she has become like her mother... In this story, told with rare emotional precision, you almost as inevitably recognize yourself.