Open mic night in Moscow and other stories from my search for black markets Soviet architecture and emotionally unavailable Russian men First Edition by Audrey Murray,Emily Woo Zeller ISBN 1982528931 978-1982528935

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ISBN 10: 1982528931 

ISBN 13: 978-1982528935

Author:  Audrey Murray, Emily Woo Zeller 

The raucous and surprisingly poignant story of a young, Russia-obsessed American writer and comedian who embarked on a solo tour of the former Soviet Republics, never imagining that it would involve kidnappers, garbage bags of money, and encounters with the weird and wonderful from Mongolia to Tajikistan.

Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Siberia are not the typical tourist destinations of a twenty-something, nor the places one usually goes to eat, pray, and/or love. But the mix of imperial Russian opulence and Soviet decay, and the allure of emotionally unavailable Russian men proved strangely irresistible to comedian Audrey Murray.

At age twenty-eight, while her friends were settling into corporate jobs and serious relationships, Audrey was on a one-way flight to Kazakhstan, the first leg of a nine-month solo voyage through the former USSR. A blend of memoir and offbeat travel guide (black markets in Uzbekistan: 5 stars; getting kidnapped in Turkmenistan: 1 star) this thoughtful, hilarious catalog of a young comedian’s adventures is also a diary of her emotional discoveries about home, love, patriotism, loneliness, and independence.

Sometimes surprising, often disconcerting, and always entertaining, Open Mic Night in Moscow will inspire you to take the leap and embark on your own journey into the unknown. And, if you want to visit Chernobyl by way of an insane-asylum-themed bar in Kiev, Audrey can assure you that there’s no other guidebook out there.

 

Table of contents: 

• Cover

• Opening for a Meditative Drum Circle in Almaty

• Riding a Horse in the Mountains of Kyrgyzstan

• The Most Terrifying Flight on Earth – Tajikistan

• A Ten-Day Road Trip Through Tajikistan

• Touring the Black Markets of Uzbekistan

• Trains, Tombs, and Ovaries – Uzbekistan

• An Invitation to a Stranger’s Wedding – Uzbekistan

• An Afternoon in Chernobyl – Ukraine

• Halloween in Your Lover’s Homeland – Belarus

• Couchsurf the Baltics – Lithuania

• All Trains Lead to Russia

• The Trans-Siberian Railway

• Trans-Siberian Prelude – A Brief Stopover in China

• A Month on the Trans-Siberian

• Open Mic Night in Moscow

• A Visit to a Secret Museum – Uzbekistan

• Camping Beside the Door to Hell – Turkmenistan

• Taken in Turkmenistan

• How to Get Out of Turkmenistan When You’re Out of Cash

• Clubbing with Strangers from a Convenience Store in Kazakhstan

• Eastern Europe

• Acknowledgments

• About the Author

• Copyright

• About the Publisher

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