Abstract "my flag was recorded by a cat", Lena Lyagushonkova" my flag was recorded by a cat " is an attempt by the author to describe her life in a small village near Luhansk. It seems that time has stopped there and is stuck for a long time either in hopeless Soviet scenery, or in the difficult 90s. It is as if an impenetrable wall has formed between modernity and new realities, information is most often drawn from the TV (of course, with Russian channels), the newspapers "speed-info" or "facts", and above all these confident waste heaps rise: "because we always did this", "because you are a girl", "you need to live so that no one envies you", "if you didn't live Harasho, you don't need to start". This text is full of irony and banter, sarcasm on the verge of what sometimes seems to be common sense. Everything is especially difficult for those who are "not like that", "the smartest" and in general "it will be hard for you to live with your character". This is a world where sick children are taken to a magical grandfather who rolls out an egg, where a girl is born "so that the Assistant is" and carefully hide unpresentable, according to the vigilant community, family secrets (for example, someone's Jewish origin)... Lena Lyagushonkova's novel " My flag was written by a cat "is not an attempt to" explain the Donbass", but an honest, ironic and painfully recognizable story by many readers about how to survive in a world where time is stuck between a bad past and a hopeless present, where the TV is still the main source of information, and the phrase" because you are a girl " is a universal excuse for all occasions. On the pages of the book, the author describes a story about childhood and youth in a small village near Lugansk with an accurate combination of sarcasm, absurdity and black humor. Here, even tragic memories sound somehow special-you want to laugh, otherwise you can't stand it. Here they take children to the" grandfather with an egg", here they hide their Jewish origin, here they give birth to daughters as" helpers", and all this is filled with a thick sauce of family secrets and fears. But this text is about something more than a specific region. This is a story about all of us: about people who know how to endure, laugh through their teeth and survive in any conditions in their native lands. "My flag was written by a cat" is an honest, multi-faceted and funny socio-psychological book for those who are ready to plunge into reflections on identity, humanity and current events in order to get intellectual pleasure from reading.