Tanya carries a notebook wherever she goes, recording her observations and her dreams of finding love and escaping her job at the All-Russia All-Cosmopolitan Museum, a place which holds a fantastic and terrible collection of art knockoffs created using the tools at hand, from foam to chewing gum, Popsicle sticks to tomato juice. When the museum's director hears of a mysterious American group seeking to fund art in Russia, it looks like she might get her chance at a better life, if she can only convince them of the collection's worth. Enlisting the help of Azade, Olga and even Mircha, Tanya scrambles to save her dreams and her neighbors, and along the way discovers that love may have been waiting in her own courtyard all along.
- ISBN10 0618563733
- ISBN13 9780618563739
- Publish Date 8 February 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 370
- Language English