On February 24, 2022, Ukrainian Zhenya Berezhnaya woke up to a call from her family in Kharkov: the war had begun. Her usual life in her beloved Kyiv, where Zhenya wrote fairy tales for adults, taught, and hosted a podcast about literature, was over. Sirens and spending the night in basements, evacuation, refugee status, the loss of a loved one, attempts to reassemble herself in a new country - all this is described in Berezhnaya's autobiographical novel (Not) About War.