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«My Spare Lives» is Iryna Slavinska's debut in essayism. This book is a patchwork quilt of memories, reflections, and reflections. Iryna Slavinska, journalist, translator and producer of Radio Kultura, member of PEN Ukraine, reflects on her personal history, the history of her family and her clan, puts together puzzles of memories from her childhood, studies, travels, work situations in translation and journalism, up to the events of recent times. It is the identification of important moments in life - certain anchors and cultural codes that anchor us in the modern reality. Marking the lost links of memory that need to be recognised, but are not always recoverable. The stories of other people, or even other countries, which can be lived as if they were our own spare lives.