The True Meaning of LoveThe True Meaning of Love

February 24 is the eighteenth birthday of a Ukrainian ballet school student named Vlad. It also happens to be the day that the first bombs of the 2022 Russian attack land on his homeland. Vlad is immediately called up to serve in the military. But as much as he wants to defend his country, he is desperate to get his girlfriend, Tatyanna, an orphan whose only home has been the ballet school, out of the country. This novel tells the stories of Vlad, Tatyanna, and other ordinary people struggling to protect their loved ones and preserve their own humanity as war rages around them.