Moonlight in Odessa: A Novel
In Odessa, Ukraine, Daria, a whip-smart engineer, spends her days underemployed as a secretary—a job she was lucky to get in this rotten economy. She spends her evenings moonlighting as an interpreter at an agency that matches lonely American men with beautiful-but-broke Ukrainian women. She...
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In Odessa, Ukraine, Daria, a whip-smart engineer, spends her days underemployed as a secretary—a job she was lucky to get in this rotten economy. She spends her evenings moonlighting as an interpreter at an agency that matches lonely American men with beautiful-but-broke Ukrainian women. She spends her nights wondering if there is more. When an American client offers marriage and a one-way ticket out of poverty, Daria jumps at the chance. She soon learns there's a reason that her husband couldn't find a wife in America, and that the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the world. The perfect book for anyone who's ever been stuck in a dead-end job or relationship, Moonlight in Odessa is an exploration of language, culture, and the difficult choices we make in the pursuit of love and stability.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781608192328 (1608192326)
Publish date: August 31st 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Romance,
Contemporary,
Russia,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Ukraine
Jane Collingwood reads from Janet Skeslien Charles's debut novel, set in the Ukraine. Blurbification - Daria is a young woman just out of university with an engineering degree and perfect English. However, in Odessa impeccable qualifications alone are no guarantee of a good job.
Warning: Review contains the same spoilers to be found in the blurbMoonlight in Odessa is a simply excellent book. I'd give it 4.25 stars if I could, but I haven't gotten that precise with my shelving yet and Goodreads still doesn't even have half-stars.This book sometimes gets classified as chick l...