Memoirs of a muse

By Lara Vapnyar

Subjects: Russian American fiction, Inspiration, Russian Americans, Fiction, humorous, general, Women immigrants, Fiction, Novelists, Authorship, Fiction, romance, general, New york (n.y.), fiction

Description: Obsessed by Dostoyevsky and the woman who became his muse, Tanya emigrates to New York City from the former Soviet Union and falls in with Mark Schneider, a writer for whom she is determined to be both lover and source of inspiration.