There once lived a woman who tried to kill her neighbor's baby

by Liudmila Petrushevskaia

The stories in this collection were published in Russian in Novy Mir, Ogonyok, Literaturnaya Gazeta and other periodicals. "Father" and "Two Kindgdoms" first appeared in n+1; "The Arm", "Incident at Sokolniki" and "A Mother's Farewell" in Vice; and "The Fountain House" in The New Yorker.