Audrey Murray

Open Mic Night in Moscow (eBook, ePUB)

And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When people ask, I have variously described my trip as like Wild, but in Turkmenistan, or like Eat, Pray, Love, but with yak-herding

At twenty-eight, comedian Audrey Murray took a look around at her peer groupestablished in their careers, getting ready to take the next step in their relationshipsand thought, I should probably start to think about doing that. Then she promptly boarded the next flight to Kazakhstan.

A combination of Wild and whatever Netflix series you're currently binging, Open Mic Night in Moscow chronicles the episodes of Audrey's solo travels through the former Soviet Unionadventures that take her from a lookout on an American military base in Afghanistan, to a burning crater in Turkmenistan, to a wedding in Uzbekistan, through a Belarusian forest, to crossing Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railwayand includes a cast of characters Tolstoy would have envied. But don't worry; her book is 800 pages shorter than the average Russian novel.

Audrey's keen observational eye and curiosity about human nature lead to fascinating excursions through parts of the world that are infamous to Westerners but seldom visited by them. Take the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plantdo you assume, as Audrey did, that the Chernobyl accident took place in a place called Chernobyl? Read this book and discover whether or not that's true (and more important, whether it's safe to visit).

Through her encounters, Audrey experiences a panoply of perspectives on being a woman traveling solo, on the concept of home and the idea of settling down, and the pros and cons of sleeping in yurts.

Open Mic Night in Moscow is the kind of book you will both want to devour in one sitting and savorsomewhat like a good blini.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062823304
• Artikelnr.: 53326695

Autorenporträt

Audrey Murray is a redhead from Boston who moved to China and became a standup comedian. The co-founder of the Kung Fu Komedy, Audrey was named the funniest person in Shanghai by City Weekend magazine. Audrey is a staff writer for Reductress.com and a regular contributor at Medium.com; her writing has also appeared in The Gothamist, China Economic Review, Nowness, Architizer, and on the wall of her dad's office. Audrey has appeared on the Lost in America, Listen to This!, and Shanghai Comedy Corner podcasts, on CNN and ICS, and in Shanghai Daily, Time Out, Smart Shanghai, That's Shanghai, and City Weekend. She recently published her first memoir, Open Mic Night in Moscow.