← Ludmila PetrushevskayaThere Once Lived a Womanby Ludmila PetrushevskayaCollection of surreal stories depicting ordinary Russian lives and desperationFind on Amazon↗About the authorLudmila PetrushevskayaRussian author whose dark, tragicomic stories and plays about ordinary Soviet and post-Soviet women were long suppressed. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby is her most celebrated collection in English.More by Ludmila PetrushevskayaThe Time is NightGrim monologue of a dying mother obsessed with her son's safety and success→Immortal Love→Cinzano→Vavilonska bashnya→