An evening in the White Hall of Lermontovka dedicated to the writer Elena Shchelkova and her novel "Two Moons and Earth". Guests will discuss a difficult childhood, growing up in an era of change, and how personal history transforms into autofiction, as well as hear excerpts from the book in the author's reading. For one evening, the White Hall of Lermontovka becomes a space where literary text and the author's personal experience are particularly close to the listeners. Petersburg writer Elena Shchelkova shares the story of creating her debut novel and how artistic expression is born from fragments of biography. The conversation is built around the theme of growing up, when childhood impressions, family conflicts, and the feeling of one's own "otherness" come together over the years into a cohesive narrative about the hero's journey. Guests will learn what autofiction is and how it differs from conventional memoir prose. The discussion will cover how the author works with personal pain, reinterprets traumatic experiences, and transforms them into material for the book, while maintaining respect for the participants in real events. The boundaries between documentary and fiction will be discussed, how perspective changes with age, and why returning to one's own past can be both challenging and liberating. A separate topic of the evening is childhood during perestroika and the nineties. Elena recalls yards, schools, family stories, first encounters with social instability, and the feeling that familiar rules no longer apply. This child's perspective allows for a view of recent history not through dry facts, but through the emotions, fears, hopes, and dreams of those who grew up during this period and learned to find their place in a rapidly changing city. In a live conversation format, questions of self-relationship and relationships with others are addressed: what it means to feel like a "white crow", how to find people with whom to share values, and why acknowledging one's own vulnerability becomes a step toward inner growth. For many listeners, such an open dialogue becomes an opportunity.