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03421aam a2200529Ii 4500 001 1FFD49AE78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 200313t20212021mau 000 f eng d 020 $a 1734537914 020 $a 9781734537918 035 $a (OCoLC)1144101466 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d DPL $d OCLCO $d TOH $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d CNCAR $d OCLCO $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a e-mv--- $a e-mv--- 050 4 $a PS3609.F53 $b W54 2021 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Ifland, Alta, $e author. 245 14 $a The wife who wasn't : $b a novel / $c Alta Ifland. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Williamstown, Massachusetts : $b New Europe Books, $c 2021. 300 $a 308 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a An exhilaratingly comical, crosscultural debut novel, The Wife Who Wasn't brings together an eccentric community from the hills of Santa Barbara, California, and a family of Russians from ChiÈinÄu, the capital of Moldova. It starts in the late 1990s, after the fall of communism, and has at its center the mail-order marriage between a California man (Sammy) and a Russian woman (Tania) who comes to America, which engenders a series of hilarious cultural misunderstandings. The novel's four parts take place alternately in California and Moldova, and comprise short chapters whose point of view moves seamlessly between that of the omniscient narrator and that of various characters. Delivered in arresting prose, both realities--late 90s, bohemian/hipster California and postcommunist Moldova--thus come together from opposite points of view. Above all, this novel is a comedy of manners that depicts the cultural (and personality) clash between Tania and Sammy, Anna (Sammy's teenage daughter) and Irina, and Bill (Sammy's neighbor) and Serioja (Tania's brother). It is also a comedy of errors in the tradition of playful, multiple love triangles. The novel reaches a shocking climax involving a stolen Egon Schiele painting and alluding to the real history of East Mountain Drive, whose bohemian community was destroyed in the 2008 "Tea Fire." -- From publisher's description. 650 0 $a Russian Americans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mail order brides $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Personality $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Eccentrics and eccentricities $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Cultural pluralism $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Cultural pluralism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01715991 650 7 $a Eccentrics and eccentricities. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901271 650 7 $a Families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01728849 650 7 $a Mail order brides. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01006065 650 7 $a Personality. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01058667 650 7 $a Russian Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01101969 651 0 $a Santa Barbara (Calif.) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a ChișinaÌu (Moldova) $v Fiction. 651 7 $a California $z Santa Barbara. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205842 651 7 $a Moldova $z ChișinaÌu. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01209507 655 7 $a Satirical literature. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726649 655 7 $a Satirical literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01922539 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030221.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1FFD49AE78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search