Bald

The debut novel by Masha Konstantinidi giggles and cries, plays out a Greek tragicomedy, and documents a heavy inner struggle.

This is a young autofiction where black sludge and a choir of wigs meet, student bars and dark thoughts, while an honest narrative about life with alopecia and a chronicle of Moscow in the late 2010s – early 2020s turns into a universal story about how difficult it is to live with an imperfect body (and there are no perfect bodies) and to be understood by other people.