"Fontanka River Embankment, Even Side" is a collection of autofictional stories and essays by Laima Anderson about family, home, emigration, loneliness, and love. Describing the cities she lived in during her final years, listing the objects and things she brought with her or left behind, recalling the farewells she experienced—with people and places—the author reassembles herself and her world. Unable to physically return to St. Petersburg, the self-proclaimed heroine of Laima's texts returns to it again and again in her memories. And so, this abandoned city becomes the starting and ending point for these stories—a symbol of great love and irreparable loss.

Laima Anderson is a writer, publisher, editor, and co-founder and curator of the shell(f) communal library and writing workshops in Belgrade. In 2018, Laima created a zine based on her trips to Georgia, "My Favorite Story," and in the spring of 2020, a collective digital zine, "Objects."