Room for Sadness

A Room for Sorrow is a new collection of short stories by Andriy Lyubka. Though not connected by plot, they can be seen as a single novel, with loneliness as its main character. Abandoned, consumed by jealousy, very young, or lost in memories of the past — all these characters, on the verge of despair, find their own space for longing, "a room for sorrow," a kind of protective shell. They seek it out because they realize that loneliness is the most natural state of being.