In this collection of short stories by Halyna Kruk, tender, intimate, and at times unsettling experiences are woven together into a single whole. The characters of the book wander somewhere among us, yet only on these pages can we read their thoughts. Here are quarantine chronicles with the genuine anxieties and small consolations each of us had to live through. Here is the feeling of loss, when all that remains of a person is an old photograph. And here are the phone conversations that never manage to happen, because the callers remain unreachable to one another.
Seductive, emotional, and close to the bone, the stories in Whoever You Want, Just Not Me are woven from pure feeling. And despite the title, they are about us. Precisely about us.
