About the book: 2022 / Ten years after her parents' divorce, the daughter meets her father, a truck driver, and travels with him through central Russia and the southern regions. "Steppe" is Oksana's new novel Vasyakina, making up a duology together with the debut “Wound”: the first book is about a daughter’s farewell to her deceased mother; the second is about the relationship with my father. Returning her thoughts to the cab of a truck rushing across the steppe, the heroine reflects on the men whose youth fell in the 1980s and 1990s; about the diseases from which many of them die in silence; about how time breathed out his father, leaving him on the cold wind of the future; about Russia, which does not know what to do with its own history. Oksana Vasyakina is a writer, laureate of the Lyceum (2019) and NOS awards» (2021).