Anyone who has been a foreigner without moving
For people who woke up in the same apartment, in a different country, holding a passport that could not answer who they were.
A true story · August 2026 · 287 pages
Lost Generation
A Memoir of Addiction, Prison, and the Long Road Home
Sergei Šarašenidze
A generation searching for home while standing inside it.
Kindle & paperback $7.99 · ASIN B0HCJCSQDL
Stateless — no nationality
One passport, stamped across four continents.
Narva
Estonia · 1990s
Lihula
Estonia
Maardu
Estonia
Viljandi
Estonia
St. Petersburg
Russia
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Lima
Peru
Cannes
France · 2011
Varna
Bulgaria · 2013
Sanok
Poland · 2016
Helsinki
Finland
Riga
Latvia
“The little prince of a very ordinary kingdom.”
Sergei Šarašenidze was born in Narva, on the edge of Estonia, to a Georgian father and a Russian-speaking mother. When the Soviet Union disappeared, the family did not move. The country moved around them. He became a boy with an Alien's Passport — not a citizen, not a foreigner. Something in between.
At fourteen he entered Maardu prison. Isolation. Winter. The year 2000. The first time. Not the last. What followed was a life lived across Saint Petersburg, Amsterdam, Lima, Cannes, Varna, and Sanok — addiction, sentences, love, and the slower work of coming home.
This is a true memoir. It is not a victory lap. It is a record of what a generation lost when the old maps disappeared, and of one man who is finally on his way.
Inside the book
The author
Sergei Šarašenidze
Riga Central Station
Born stateless in a country that disappeared before he turned ten. Juvenile prison at fourteen. Scams, sentences, addiction — then the unglamorous work of finding the people who never stopped waiting.
Every written word is truth and only truth, written by me and based on my life.
Read the author pageHis voice
Search for Home
Sergei Šarašenidze · 2:00
0:002:00
His voice · 22 September 2026
Still trying to get home.
Sergei, recorded in a hotel room in Bulgaria. Released 3 July 2026. Alone, then and now. The book is the long way home.
Play the recordingReaders in recovery
A first-person account of heroin, collapse, and the silence that is not peace. No TED-talk ending.
Families who waited
For a mother who never left, a sister who kept a place, and anyone who has stood in the other room.
Book clubs
Fifty chapters and a letter to a dead father. Questions about belonging, pain, and what home is allowed to mean.
If this is your story
The book is for the kitchen table, not the highlight reel.
A page for readers in recovery, families, and people coming home — plus a resource list that is not a sales funnel.
Start here
From the journal
All notesAugust 12, 2026 · 6 min
Why a prison-and-addiction memoir still has to be written carefully
The market is full of redemption arcs. Lost Generation is after something slower.
August 19, 2026 · 5 min
How to talk to someone coming home from prison
Not a script. A few things that fail less often than the usual ones.
August 26, 2026 · 7 min
Addiction is not a plot twist
On writing using without turning a person into a cautionary tale.
If this is your story
You do not have to read it alone.
The memoir is not a victory lap. If prison, addiction, or a passport that never fit is part of your life, start here.
Read this firstNotes from the road
Occasional letters — not a daily blast. Excerpts, club dates, the odd practical thing.