Moonlight in Odessa

From the internationally bestselling author of The Paris Library, a witty and poignant story about a Ukrainian woman’s search for love, stability, and a life beyond the confines of her circumstances.

It’s 2008 in Odessa, Ukraine, and Daria, a whip-smart engineer, spends her days underemployed as a secretary—a job she was lucky to get in this rotten economy. She spends her evenings moonlighting as an interpreter at SovietUnions, an agency that matches lonely American men with beautiful-but-broke Ukrainian women. She spends her nights wondering if there is more she could be doing with her life.

When an American client offers marriage and a one-way ticket out of poverty, Daria jumps at the chance. She soon learns there’s a reason that her husband couldn’t find a wife in America, and that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the world. The perfect book for anyone who’s ever been stuck in a dead-end job or relationship, Moonlight in Odessa is an exploration of language, culture, and the difficult choices we make in the pursuit of love and stability.