The New York Times book review section on Russian lit leads off with a book called–are you ready for this empty nesters?–There once lived a mother who loved her children, until they moved back in.
Need I say more. Of course, things are a little different for the Russian moms in the three novellas ((by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya) that make up the book. They live in close quarters–kommunalkas (small apartments that house multiple and not necessarily related families). So there are privacy issues that pale in comparison to ours.
Just saying: there's a universality of issues out there.
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