Nina Krasikoff

These Currents of Life or Dating in the Times of Pandemic Nina Krasikoff

The book is written in a crisp and dynamic language with sophisticated narratives, framing compelling cast of the well-conceived characters . It is enjoyable exploration of hilarity and frustration of digital dating in a current climate of pandemic, concocted by anonymous heroine, yet representing a collective image of a single and lonely women, trapped in a small space in front of a glowing screen, whose longings were tempered down to the culture of site-dating, in search for a virtual rendezvous . The heroine is drown in a realm of flowing fantasies, where she is vocalizing rather speechless cornucopia of suitors by loud and attractive narratives, encapsulating the essence of each suitor in compactly written vignettes. Some of them are softly charged with sensuality and others are written in a lyrical scrap, to expose their originality and triviality as well. The abundance of hilarious humor creating a pitch-prefect moment to compensate deteriorating loneliness of lockdown. The structure of the book does not require to know what comes before or follow after, just a smoothly flowing colorful paragraphs, exploring love, sex, vulnerability, emotional void, mystery of imagination, materialism, and rationality of digital dating .