These stories familiarize the reader with life during the wars and are an artistic reflection of what Zherebtsova saw and experienced in the Chechen Republic.

Thin Silver Thread is a children's noir nonfiction; we experience a subconscious fear from hair, sprouting through the grass on the site of the group burial in the garden, much more than from any reports by Andrei Babitsky.Peter Silaev[5] Many parts of the texts are deliberately mystified, there are even parallel universes, and some of the action takes place in a dream.

But in each of these texts the reader will see very strong emotions and a new attempt to understand what happened in Chechnya during the childhood of the author.

This is a literature, which grew out of personal factual experiences; and is clear of the notorious writer's inventing, genre impurities and stylistic flourishes.

[8] Two more stories "Zayna" and '"Two meters squared"that were to be part of the collection were instead published in Moscow's magazine Medvedj in 2014.

Their neighbors during the war: Sultan, Maryam, Idris, Nina, Nastasia, Rumisa, Ramzan, Zayna, Fatima, Vera, Medina and others.