Behind Glass

She couldn’t endure the narrowness and silence, the tyranny of her grandfather, anymore.

She flees to Niko, her great love, where she hopes to find comfort and stability.

The two of them spend a wonderful summer full of freedom. But then everything

changes: Niko is increasingly short-tempered and things get very ugly. In the moment

of her greatest despair, however, Alice can escape this toxic vortex. Julya Rabinowich

writes with a narrative intensity that was absent from young adult fiction for a long

time. Empathetically and with poetic force she portrays the facets of violence and the

steps necessary to reach emancipation.