so from the novel, again because of this heroine, and it seemed to me that for the heroine valentina lebedeva and... this root system, the connection with her grandmother, the connection with the birch grove, and sonya, who leaves for finland, well, yes, but you see, sonya, first of all, she is older than valentina, and it seems to her that she will now fly out of socialism like a bird, everything will be chocolate, yes, but the iron curtain, it did not allow people to see that life, yes, that life in the west is also generally quite hard, yeah. that in the novel birch roach there are some indications, that is, on the one hand, it is written quite traditionally, that is, women do not need to be afraid that there are some radical feminist attitudes there, everything is very clear, yes, the situation is very clear valentina, and her parents are very clear. she is dependent on men, while she is trying to get out of some traps that her wife is men and still dependent on them, provided by socialism, so she basically has no other way than to go to the factory as a student, as her mother imagines, t