Allow people to tell their stories of their heartbreak and you can't believe what is written on paper. Chernobyl was an horrible accident and there is no way you can survive that, no matter what the governments does nor does not do. Lies are told to keep spirits going because what are you going to do, you are going to die at some point, somehow - for those living in Chernobyl, death was going to be interesting but you don't dwell, you move on. Time after time, monologue and after monologue, the reader reads heartbreak but the Russian resilient to live life till the end.

Painful, honest and there is hope in this book.