All the Clean Ones Are Married
All the Clean Ones Are Married: And Other Everyday Calamities in Moscow Lori Cidylo,
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
ISBN: 0897335015
Edition: Hardcover; 2001-10-01
Summary:
In 1991, Lori Cidylo shocked her Ukrainian Polish-born parents when
she told them she was leaving her reporters job on an upstate New
York newspaper to live and work in the rapidly dissolving Soviet
Union. For six years she lived on a shoe-string budget in Moscow, in
tiny, run-down apartments, struggling with broken toilets and
indifferent landlords and coping with the daily calamities of life in
Russia. Fluent in Russian, she rode on public transportation, did her
own shopping and cooking, and shared the typical Muscovites
lifeunlike most Westerners who were still sequestered in the heavily
guarded compounds reserved for diplomats and journalists. As the
country experienced its most dramatic transformation since the
Bolshevik Revolution, she realized she had stepped into a fantastical
and absurd adventure. Cidylos wry, insightful account of what it is
like for an American woman living in Russia is a dramatic tale full
of insouciant laughter, in which the immediate sense of vivid
experience shines on every page. With the sharp eye of an acute
observer, she captures the momentous events no less than the everyday
trivia: how do Russians address one another now that the familiar
"comrade" is passé; or how do you find your way home in a city where
the streets keep getting new names? As Russia even now continues to
struggle with the Cold Wars aftermath, Cidylo gives a delightful,
surprising, warmly human view of post-Soviet life.
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