The second novel by Lyceum Award winner Ekaterina Manoilo raises the question of guilt and responsibility, deserved punishment and family secrets that can ruin more than one life. Here, as in the debut book "Father Looks to the West," the problem of fathers and children is raised, but from a completely different angle.In the schoolyard, the wind carried and twisted dead leaves on the asphalt. A plump pigeon sat on the head of the bust of Dostoevsky, whose name the school bore. Louise didn't like this bust. With his pointed nose, hollow cheeks, and piercing gaze, Dostoevsky resembled his father. Although my father didn't write any novels.Two sisters who are forced to flee their home, a mother who left her family for a beautiful life, a father who is looking for a replacement for his wife who betrayed him in his eldest daughter, deception, despair, murder, and pursuit — we have before us both highly social prose and road movies, so rare in Russian literature.Suddenly, Isi became interested in the Khachaturian sisters. She joined all support groups, disliked anonymous shouts of "the law is the law," "girls should be judged harshly," "these parricides have no place in a normal society," studied the biographies of unhappy girls more closely than other fans follow the lives of their favorite rock musicians.