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«My grandfather danced the best for all» — a series of narratives that form a single story of nine families, whose children meet in school in the first spring in the first year of Ukraine's independence and remain friends for the rest of their lives. From the twenty years in Kharkov and the demolition of Lesya Kurbas theatre through the Holodomor, the Second World War, the Dev’yanosti and a few miles of emigration to the war in Donbas.

This book is first of all about accepting the past. About how events and circumstances affect us regardless of whether we know about them. About the pull and connection of generations, the desire for love and acceptance, self-motivation as a result or as a cause. About losses – realised or unrealised, justified or unjustified. And, most importantly, about the fact that even self-timed, thrown away, damaged can still survive and live, because, despite everything, there is always a possibility to become happy.

Katerina Babkina — one of the brightest representatives of the current Ukrainian literature. Writer, scriptwriter, columnist and journalist. She regularly collaborates with Ukrainian and foreign publications, including Esquire, Le Monde, Harper's Bazaar, Kenyon Review, Washington Square Review. She is the author of poetry collections «Vogni St. Elm» (2002), «Hirchitsya» (2011), «Znebolyuvalne i sneudinyne» (2014), «Zagovreno na lubov» (2017), children's books and vidaniyas «Garbuzoviy ryk» (2014), «Shapochka i whale» (2015), «Our birds and the things that prevent them» (2018), the novel «Sonya» (2014) and the books of opovidany «Lilu after you» (2008) and «Shaslivi naked people» (2016).

Katerina Babkinoi's works have been translated in eleven hundred and fifty languages around the world, including a German translation of the novel «Sonia», in 2017 a collection of poems translated into Hebrew was published in Israel, and in 2018 «Happy Naked People» was released in Poland.