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The title of Irina Shuvalova's book «stone-sadlis» hints that different substances in it, like in an alchemist's retort, merge with each other to form something new. People in the poems of the collection break down into elements, and the world of things suddenly responds with human voices. Eliminating the gaps not only between words but also between things, the author explores the phenomenon of memory at its deepest, most organic levels, where relatives and strangers are intertwined by circulatory systems, like trees by roots. This is a book about belonging - to time, place, and people - and about the inability to definitively define oneself by any of these belongings.

The fluid world of Shuvalova's poems is complemented and reflected by collages by Victoria Chernyakhivska, made on the basis of photos from the poet's family archive.