We met evil

The hero of this book is not easy to call even the name of evil, although it has many names: carcinoma, tumor, cancer. It is even more difficult to tell how everything happened, because evil came to a loved one - her mother’s older sister, who has a respectful nickname Elena, she once replaced her parents, and for her children she became like a grandmother.
So far, Elena is a complex, exhausting treatment, the family, fighting with its fears, fills her life with light and care, gradually - in a minute, hour, day - takes away from the disease, finding simple reasons for joy and faith. On this path, every day has been a small victory over evil, and everything, even ordinary, event is a leaf fall, a New Year"s matinee, the first snow, the constellation seen - seems to be a miracle of everything, and not just a little yasa sister.
In a fight with evil you can win or lose, but evil does not need to be afraid, and each participant is important in this struggle and every moment of life is valuable.
Alexander Zaitseva with the story "We met evil" became the finalist of the Booker contest in 2020.
For older school children