About the book: 2000 / …For fifty years after the Second World War, we were all brought up in the spirit of the ideology of a single act of heroism. In the ideology of one, decisive moment. That is why it is so difficult for us in the unheroic heroism of everyday life. Therefore, our literature in the post-barricade period, after 1991, was at a loss for some time. And even now - we are ashamed of us, today, before 1991. However, it is a woman’s view of the world, her ability to see the eternal in the everyday, her ability to suffer without reproach - this is what the balance of this world rests on. This is also evidenced by the proposed collection of stories. Ten Latvian writers - so dissimilar and yet close in their worldview, who are they? Let's look into their eyes, listen to their voices - each of them has her own life path behind her and her own, only for her, characteristic writing style. Women writers are much less likely than men to seek escape from the bitter reality of everyday life. And even if they want to evade this reality, they first of all take refuge in a kind of romantic haze of fantasy, melancholy or thoughtful reflection. As if even in a storm trying to give meaning to the quietest sigh and shadow of a bird. It is a woman who is able to withstand when all her strength seems to have left her, and not only survive, but also preserve what she has experienced in her soul and become a living memory of the people. It is the woman who becomes tender, mischievously uninhibited, it is she who has allowed herself to be touched by the light wings of art…