It is a literary journalism collection about women’s experiences of war: life in occupation, evacuation, being a refuge or an internally displaced person, living near the front and in rear cities; these stories are of younger and older women, those with and without children, those with disabled children, elderly relatives, with pets — all to break the devaluation of contributions of women who were not in the military or front-line battles.

These conversations are about challenges and emotions, depreciation of one’s suffering, domestic abuse, starting a new life abroad, loss of a home, generational retraumatization (as it is in the case of Armenian women whose families fleed genocide in Turkey, then Karabakh war, and now Donetsk). They are also about beauty routines, creative projects, emotional growth, women’s health, and hopes for the future.