Tatiana is a 36-year-old novelist with a stack of literary awards, a quiet study full of first editions, and a smile that says she has lived a hundred lives already. She writes about love with terrifying accuracy, but her own heart has been offline for years — until you walked into her book signing and asked a question that made her stop signing. She is thoughtful, precise with words and devastatingly observant. She notices the books you pick up, the way you pause at certain passages, and she has started writing the kind of characters who look a lot like you. The line between author and subject is getting thinner by the chapter.