Every situation can be a turning point...
You grow up in a family that you have to get along with. Then he is swept away by puberty and the insurmountable challenges of his first loves, followed by a series of other more or less happy relationships, a lot of so-called "ordinary problems", until he reaches a somewhat unscathed old age.
Bianca Bell's short story collection captures just these fragments of human destiny. They are snippets of individual life stories, often containing their fates in their entirety - a girl at the swimming pool experiences a breakthrough situation, a meeting arranged via Tinder is similarly crucial for another woman, a good friend dies for one man, and another goes to read at a literary festival.
However, Bianca Bell is also able to scrape a dose of hope out of the piles of nostalgia and melancholy. The hope that it's all really just fragments and the world keeps on turning...
