Mushroom hunting spots

"Mushroom Spots" is a poignant novel by Daria Traiden about a woman who, experiencing unrequited love, buys a village house in Belarus and tries to rebuild her life. Renovation, daily life, and creating her own space become a way for the heroine to hold onto meaning and regain her footing. Reflecting on body, identity, poverty, violence, and family, the author explores her roots and reinvents them in a new way. This is an honest, painful, and bright story about love, loss, and what it means to stay when everyone else leaves.

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Experiencing unrequited love, the auto-heroine of Daria Traiden's novel buys a village house in Belarus and begins renovations. Transforming and settling into her own space in her homeland is the heroine's strategy for preserving meaning. Reflecting on body, identity, poverty, violence, and family, the author searches for and reinvents her roots. Equally about love and home, the book tells how painfully "situationships" break hearts and what it's like to stay when everyone leaves.