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«The Death of Cecil the Lion Made Sense» — Olena Stiazhkina's novel about our war and the fates of people who were accidentally brought together in a Donetsk maternity hospital in 1986. The magic of photography and borrowed names turns strangers into branches of a family tree, and they eventually become a family, with a little girl at the centre of it. The book is full of transitions: a dentist becomes a military surgeon, a goat becomes a sapper-dog, a cowardly Soviet official takes on the features of a guardian angel, a cosmetics saleswoman turns into a sniper instructor... In the Ukrainian Donbas. At the beginning of the twenty-first century. However, time in the book is a rather conditional value.

This is the author's first novel in Ukrainian, but not entirely: according to the idea, Ukrainian is perhaps the most important point of transition, in which a conscious farewell to Russian means for heroes and non-heroes the opportunity to be themselves.