She had imagined everything so beautifully and struggles to maintain her composure when things don't go quite as happily. The narrator of these stories has a tough time. Mariana Leky skillfully highlights the comedy in the tragic, portraying a young woman in the delicate transition to adulthood. "I once tried to leave, just like that, and as I had just started. I packed all the important things into a box, locked my room, and placed the key on the door frame." But something always gets in the way - a new acquaintance, a horde of slugs, or simply the landlord on the stairs. So she keeps going, "because you can't just always start something, but sometimes you have to finish something properly." Compelling, turbulent, charming: Mariana Leky's young narrator navigates through life.