How do our perceptions of childhood change when viewed through the eyes of a historian, a writer, and a careful reader of their own biography? At the creative meeting with Elena Shchelkanova, the story of growing up, Perestroika, and the 90s intertwines with a conversation about trauma, dreams, and how the white crows still find their own. The meeting with writer Elena Shchelkanova is aimed at everyone who resonates with stories of growing up, self-discovery, and attempts to come to terms with the past. The occasion for the conversation will be the novel "Two Moons and Earth" - a book about a girl born during the era of Perestroika, going through the tumultuous nineties, and gradually piecing together her adult life from fragments of family memories, television images, and personal discoveries. Guests will learn how personal biography transforms into artistic text: what the author takes directly from experience and what they have to invent to tell more honestly about feelings. Elena Shchelkanova will share how studying history and political science, working as an editor and journalist helped her see her familiar childhood in a new light and turn it into material for autofiction. The discussion will also touch on how to dare to write the first book when it seems that everything has already been said in the literary field. A separate block of discussion will be dedicated to the image of the child at the end of the 20th century. Participants will talk about how expectations from a "good girl" and "model student" have changed, why there is so much silence and unspoken truths in family stories, and how this is reflected in literature about growing up. Importantly, the conversation will proceed without moralizing - through examples, scenes from the novel, and recognizable everyday details that easily reflect personal experience. Another theme of the meeting is the feeling of being a white crow. Together with the author, guests will discuss how to survive the feeling of otherness, learn to accept their uniqueness, and seek out people with whom they can speak the same language. Fragments of text will be read by the author, after which questions can be asked about the structure of the novel, working with memory, searching for themes, and inner integrity.