Ticket to America includes 14 short stories with lyrical scenes and eroticism.

[1][2]The collection is named after one of the short stories, "Ticket to America" by Andrei Gusev.

This story, written before perestroika in the USSR, tells about a young girl who was born in Moscow and leaves her homeland forever, going to her father in the United States of America.

[4] All four authors met at the editorial office of the newspaper "Stupeni"[5] in Moscow, then they decided to publish this book.

The collection Ticket to America and the short story of the same name became the hallmark of the then novice Moscow writer Andrei Gusev.