"'Lioness's Milk, or Me, Boris Shubaev' Stella Prudon is a family saga about mountain Jews in the 1980s-2000s, which suddenly turns into a phantasmagoria and a novel of upbringing, more precisely, a novel of overcoming the limitations and violence of the environment, family, state, own illness and fears. "Don't be afraid of anything" — this is the result to which the main character of the book, Boris Shubaev, comes. It was fearlessness that helped him break through the madness and pressure of others to his own vocation and become a great opera singer. The paradox, however, is that without the sacrificial love of his mother and loved ones, he would never have achieved this, Boris won not only personal courage and firmness, but also their sacrifice in his name." - Maya Kucherskaya "Intonation, color, love - this is the basis of Stella Prudon's prose. Love for life, for the world, for their heroes — no matter how strange their natures and bizarre their actions. Everything in this narrative is very juicy and visible. The author is able to show an impressive fragment of human existence as such - without raping it with a deliberate plot. Life itself writes the plots here." - Vladislav Otroshenko