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Janet Skeslien Charles has lived in Paris since 1999. She enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with her family in Montana and South Carolina. She is working on her second novel as well as a collection of essays about life in Paris.

The backdrop of her debut novel Moonlight in Odessa is the booming business of e-mail order brides, an industry where love and marriage meet sex and commerce. While at the University of Montana, Janet Skeslien Charles translated letters from desperate Russian women to lonely American men. She also interpreted for Russian women married to Americans. After finishing her degree in English literature, she spent two years in Odessa, Ukraine, where she taught English and French at a high school and trained teach...more


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Les fiancées d’Odessa


So pleased that the paperback version of Les fiancées d’Odessa is out!


“Avec un talent de conteuse qui emporte le lecteur, elle signe un roman narquois sur l’économie des rapport humains, tout en laissant juste un peu de place à l’espoir.” -Le Monde


“Un premier roman très réussi qui va à rebours des clichés.” -Causette

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“Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler.”
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“My job is to scream cockle-doodle-doo. Don't blame me if the sun doesn't rise.”
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“Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?”
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