From the internationally bestselling author of The Paris Library, an effervescent (National Geographic Traveler) novel that tells the tale of one woman who risks everything for loveand a green card.

Its 2008 in Odessa, Ukraine, and Daria, a whip-smart engineer, spends her days underemployed as a secretarya job she was lucky to get in this rotten economy. Under pressure to support herself and her grandmother, Daria lines up a second job at the matchmaking agency. She works as an interpreter and helps organize socials, parties where men unable to find girlfriends in the States are introduced to Ukrainian women desperate to get to the West.

Daria tells herself that moonlighting is just a way to make some extra money. Shes not looking for a mate, but her boss talks her into corresponding with Tristin, a client from California who is offering a one-way ticket out of poverty. She jumps at the chance, but Daria soon learns theres a reason that her husband couldnt find a wife in America, and that the grass isnt always greener on the other side of the world.

A wry, tender look at marriage, the desires we don't acknowledge, and the aftermath of communism, the wise, witty, wonderfully written (Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments) Moonlight in Odessa delves into the choices and sacrifices that people make in the pursuit of love and stability. This novel, a blend of action, social commentary, and humor, is the result of the authors years in Ukraine as a Soros Fellow, translating letters between American men and Ukrainian women, and interviews with email-order brides and their husbands, as well as her knowledge of the lucrative international matchmaking business.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Paris Library, an effervescent (National Geographic Traveler) novel that tells the tale of one woman who risks everything for loveand a green card.

Its 2008 in Odessa, Ukraine, and Daria, a whip-smart engineer, spends her days underemployed as a secretarya job she was lucky to get in this rotten economy. Under pressure to support herself and her grandmother, Daria lines up a second job at the matchmaking agency. She works as an interpreter and helps organize socials, parties where men unable to find girlfriends in the States are introduced to Ukrainian women desperate to get to the West.

Daria tells herself that moonlighting is just a way to make some extra money. Shes not looking for a mate, but her boss talks her into corresponding with Tristin, a client from California who is offering a one-way ticket out of poverty. She jumps at the chance, but Daria soon learns theres a reason that her husband couldnt find a wife in America, and that the grass isnt always greener on the other side of the world.

A wry, tender look at marriage, the desires we don't acknowledge, and the aftermath of communism, the wise, witty, wonderfully written (Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments) Moonlight in Odessa delves into the choices and sacrifices that people make in the pursuit of love and stability. This novel, a blend of action, social commentary, and humor, is the result of the authors years in Ukraine as a Soros Fellow, translating letters between American men and Ukrainian women, and interviews with email-order brides and their husbands, as well as her knowledge of the lucrative international matchmaking business.