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My Russian Affair
University of Wisconsin Press
September 2004
On Sale: September 1, 2004
218 pages
ISBN: 0299201007
EAN: 9780299201005
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In January 1998, while the rest of her newsroom is chasing
the Monica Lewinsky story, television journalist Jennifer
Cohen gets a lead that takes her out of covering that
scandal and deep into another one—the trafficking of sex
slaves from the former Soviet Union into the United States.
Knowing that the college crush she never quite forgot works
for a St. Petersburg newspaper, she hires him to help out.
Much to their surprise, they fall madly in love over
thousands of miles of telephone line. Within weeks, Cohen
finds herself engaged to marry a man she barely knows and on
a plane to Russia. No one could have predicted the total
collapse that followed—of the Russian economy, of her
fiancé’s sobriety, of Cohen's mental health and physical
safety, and of her professional aspirations. Cohen's vivid descriptions of her life in anything-goes
Moscow—bribing government officials, meeting pimps in back
alleys for interviews, being told by her boss to perpetuate
American clichés about Russia in her pieces—are a colorful
counterpart to the despair and loneliness that replaces the
love between Cohen and her betrothed. Their battles with
prescription drugs, alcoholic rages, and physical abuse are
recounted with perspective and wit, offering a smart,
poignant, and unvarnished look at a complicated relationship
in a complicated land.
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