"And" is a collection of stories about people moving between continents, languages, and between past and present. Through encounters and partings, memories that arise at unexpected moments, and characters living between two worlds – sometimes belonging to neither – a complex and delicate picture of everyday life unfolds, in which politics, history, and family are intertwined without declarations or didactic intentions.

Lydia Gordon Knecht's writing is restrained and precise. She does not seek drama, but dwells on the small details that make up our lives – random conversations, unnoticeable gestures, fragments of memory – and opens a window to the reader into the characters' inner worlds without directing them how to feel or what to think.

"Blue" offers an honest and moving look at life between places, at silences and gaps that cannot always be bridged, and at human continuity – not out of certainty, but out of necessity.