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Hi, I'm Meg Bortin and I'd like to thank all the people who entered the Giveaway for my new book, Desperate to Be a Housewife. Some statistics: 1,388 people entered from around the world. The winners live in Singapore, Romania, the United States, Canada and France! They will be receiving their signed copies shortly. I'd also like to thank Goodreads for this excellent program -- connecting readers and writers across the globe. And I hope that some of you who didn't win will read the book anyway!

Meg Bortin is an American journalist and writer based in France. She is the author of two memoirs, Desperate to Be a Housewife, about her life as a young reporter on the front lines of sexual freedom, and Dear Djeneba, about adopting her daughter in M ...more

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For the last month, friends and family who know my background as former Moscow correspondent have been asking what I think about the war in Ukraine. I found replying to be difficut — I couldn’t find the words. Then a high school classmate heard that I’d started working with the Red Cross to help Ukrainian refugees as

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