Milli Vodovich (Flowers)

America, 2000s. Twelve-year-old Milli is the daughter of Bosnian refugees. Despite the fact that she was born already in exile, she fails to assimilate: the family lives in an area for the newcomer poor, and in the city they are almost untouchable and therefore worthy of all kinds of humiliation. Bloody, but full of unexpected, piercing tenderness, the history of our days is accompanied by chthonic visions: fragments of a children's fairy tale about Heart-eater.

In the cycle of hatred, which requires more and more senseless victims, love does not have time to mature. But still, it breaks through with sprouts, and this novel resembles the story of Romeo and Juliet.