Reading with Barbara Pallecchi

Mila - in her early forties, accustomed to success - spends a summer at home. What was supposed to be a productive time-out actually turns out to be an existential crisis. Mila is on leave from her management position. If she wants to keep her job, she has to undergo coaching. A time of relentless challenge begins. It is questioned, questions itself and increasingly loses its orientation. Instead of thinking about her professional future, she observes and eavesdrops on Misha, the little boy who has moved into the apartment above her with his father and speaks the language of her childhood.

"A story about language, severed roots and buried life dreams, about origin and identity, and about the fear of missing out on one's own life."

Barbara Pallecchi, born in 1963 in what is now the Czech Republic, grew up in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley, studied psychology and pedagogy at the University of Zurich. Today, she accompanies people with mental illnesses on their way back to work. She lives in Zurich and Chur and often writes in Savognin.