Galina Shcherbakova, who in her books knows how to speak simply and wisely about the psychology of love relationships, is read by both intellectuals and ordinary people, everyone appreciates their own things in her. Galina Shcherbakova is no longer alive, but an archive of her prose remains, carefully collected and kept by the author’s husband, the famous Ogonyok journalist Alexander Shcherbakov. The book “Sorrowing and Laughing” includes never-before-published stories by the writer and the unfinished novel “Lorca.” The author focuses on women who, for the sake of happiness - their own and those of their loved ones - have to sacrifice principles and make compromises, often leading to the destruction of their personality...