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The Wife Who Wasn’t brings together an eccentric community from the hills of Santa Barbara, California, and a family of unbound Russians from Chisinau/Kishinev, the capital of Moldova. The novel starts in the late nineties, after the fall of Communism, and has at its center the “arranged” (via a matrimonial agency) marriage between a California man (Sammy) and a Russian woman (Tania) who comes to America and engenders a series of hilarious cultural misunderstandings.
The novel’s four parts take ...more
The novel’s four parts take ...more
May 16, 2021
Maudaevee
marked it as to-read
