Desperate to Be a Housewife

"Meg Bortin's eventful memoir will surprise and amuse." - Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce Meet Mona Venture, a journalist in search of a story - with a happy ending. In this exuberant memoir, Meg Bortin recounts her journey from the student protests of America in the '60s to Paris and love in the '70s to her life on the front lines of news in Gorbachev's Russia. She's young, she's modern, and she's desperate to solve a problem: how to reconcile her life as an independent woman with her longing for happily-ever-after. Bortin, an American in Paris, has changed the names of the people portrayed in her story - in order, she says, to protect the guilty. As Mona Venture, she crosses paths with the famous and infamous amid many misadventures with men. Sexy, candid and occasionally hilarious, her story will resonate with anyone who has wondered how women of our time have found their way through a minefield of changing roles - and lived to tell the tale.

Author: Meg Bortin
Publisher: Mirabelle Books
Published: 11/09/2013
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780615897592

About the Author
Meg Bortin is an American journalist and writer based in France. A former senior editor at the International Herald Tribune, she has written widely on French and Soviet affairs. Her articles on politics, culture and lifestyle have appeared in many publications. In 1992 Bortin was the founding editor of The Moscow Times, the first independent English-language daily newspaper in Russia. She later spent an amusing year as Paris correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter. Before leaving the Trib, she created the international edition of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Bortin has one previously published literary work, 'Dear Djeneba, ' a personal essay included in 'Family Wanted, ' an anthology on adoption published by Granta Books in 2005 and Random House in 2006. Bortin also publishes a culinary blog, The Everyday French Chef, where she posts recipes once a week. She and her daughter divide their time between Paris and Burgundy, where they have a garde

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