Lonely Place America. Novel-in-Stories

Lonely Place America. Novel-in-Stories
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Many women, driven by a need for change in their lives, contact a marriage agency. These are their stories – ironic, woeful, romantic, and often very funny – as varied and as wonderful as the women themselves. Working as a matchmaker in the 1990’s Irina had seen a lot related to the international dating phenomenon, particularly as it was viewed through the eyes of Russian Women. The author is a Russian, but she has written these stories in a charming idiosyncratic English.

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Ирина Борисова. Lonely Place America. Novel-in-Stories

Part I. Problems with Electricity

How It All Started

Anna

Brave Russian Policeman

The Telephone Call from Sweden

Children and Parents

Dreams

Email

Frank

Her Bad Fortune

His Old Red Cat

The Romantic Interview

The Island

Story about Masha

How Masha Found Her Husband

Problems with Electricity

Provincial Girls

A Soulmate

Russian Business

Two letters

You and We

Youth and Beauty

A Friend of Mine

The Beloved Woman

Our Hearts Do Not Take The Reality

Oh America…

Russian Classical Literature

The History Of Our Food

The Burden

Holiday Firework

Saint Petersburg

Part II. Lonely Place America

Our Friend Larry

The Last Romantic

John Vandenberg’s Odyssey

I am Listening

Lonely Place America

Rich People

Marina’s Letters

When We Become Poor

The Enchanted Kingdom

The Structure

Richard White, the Veteran of Vietnam

He Wrote to Me

Post-Spain Syndrome

One May Be, One May Seem

The Labyrinth of Stories

Painting and Embroidery

About Writing Letters

Liza

You Are Alone

A Night Taxi

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The idea of a marriage agency originally came to mind after my lady friend’s request to use my post office box for her sister Galya’s personal letters. Galya, a divorced lady of thirty seven with a sixteen year old son, lived together with her parents. Many people in Russia live with their parents because low wages do not allow them to rent apartments, let alone to buy them.

Living with her parents did not bother Galya much. On the contrary, she found it quite convenient. Her mother was more her son’s mother than she was herself. Her mother also cleaned the apartment, cooked and washed, so Galya was occupied only with her job but her evenings were free – and boring.

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That Finnish man saw her picture in our personals catalog. She was a thirty year old Russian girl of an average appearance. She wrote in her application form that most of all she wished to take care of somebody and to have children.

He invited her to visit him to Finland, she agreed. She came by train, he met her at the railway station. She had seen his picture while corresponding, still he turned out to be smaller and thinner and his eyes were frightened though he smiled.

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