Absinthe #16: Katya Metelitsa

"Roza Abramovna herself was a little frightening: she was a good-natured, even kind woman, but extremely loud, plus she sported dark black, bushy eyebrows and a mustache. What scared me was that she had several husbands and talked about them non-stop, referring to them by number: my first husband, my second husband, my third. It was all so mysterious and fascinating."


from "Gooseberries" by Katya Metelitsa, translated by Asya Graf, in Absinthe #16