Moonlight in Odessa, author Janet Skeslien Charles’ first novel, has much to offer: a sharp and courageous protagonist, an exotic setting, and an intriguing portrayal of the mail order bride industry. Daria, a young Ukrainian woman with an engineering degree a passion for languages, struggles to find work in her native city of Odessa. While proud of her city’s rich history and culture, its sparkling beaches and nightlife, Daria is frustrated with the limitations of post-perestroika Odessa, and longs to escape the unemployment, corruption, soaring divorce rates and cutthroat business practices that define life in the former Soviet city.

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Ambitious, principled, and armed with an impressive mastery of English, Daria succeeds in landing a job as a bilingual secretary for an Israeli shipping firm, where her boss promptly informs her that "sleeping with me is the best part of the job." Sidestepping his advances (and those of a handsome mafiosa leader), Daria begins moonlighting for Soviet Unions, a matchmaking service that sets lonely Western bachelors up with young Odessan women.

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