In March 2022, here at Mon­day Press, we began receiv­ing long emails from an anony­mous account belong­ing to some­one we bare­ly knew. These let­ters were sent from deep underground—so deep that we weren’t even sure if it was safe to reply. They told an insider’s sto­ry of a world in the process of being erased: the anx­i­ety, the fear, and the long­ing for some­thing that was van­ish­ing right before the author's eyes. Over the course of a year, we received four let­ters and a series of pho­tographs (tak­en by some­one else). The author of the let­ters is now in a safe place but prefers to remain anonymous.

The book describes the Russ­ian noise under­ground in the first year of the war. It's a dev­as­tat­ing read, raw, exces­sive, hyper-exis­ten­tial, inti­mate, edge of the world, anti-war, writ­ten from the inside.