Inga's Zigzags
by Vica Miller
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Pub Date May 14 2014 | Archive Date Nov 11 2014
Description
Inga's Zigzags is the story of a 28-year-old Russian woman who, after a decade in New York, returns to post-perestroika Moscow to start her own business. When her prospects fall through and she finds herself far from the heart of the action, she meets Emma and Alexandra, a pair of wealthy and well-connected magazine publishers, who lure Inga into their bed and then propose to launch a company together. When the threesome starts to fall apart, Inga is forced to make some difficult choices to find her way through the labyrinth of Moscow's intrigues and heartbreaks, to reclaim her destiny.
The book is about evolving, finding one's place in life, about a yearning to belong and feel accepted. Inga Belova is a New Yorker who has an MBA but feels misplaced. She is a double single – as in, divorced with no boyfriend – but then she finds double love. Yet she continues to feel in between – countries, jobs, lovers. She questions her sexuality, national identity, career and loyalty. Will she ever settle? Whom does she love? What is her life's calling? To find the answers, we follow her from New York to Moscow to St. Petersburg to Miami to London and then to Moscow again.
Advance Praise
"In this well-written debut novel... Miller engagingly presents a heroine caught between contradictions: New York and Moscow; flashy glamour and self-pitying nostalgia; certainty and doubt. A sexy tale with plenty of Russian atmosphere..."
~ Kirkus Reviews
“A thrilling ride that zigzags straight to your heart.”
~ Lara Vapnyar, author of novels The Scent of Pine and Memoires of the Muse
“If you're going to read one bisexual management consulting Russian novel this year, please, dear god, make it this one."
~ Gary Shteyngart, author of novels The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Absurdistan, and Super Sad True Story, and a memoir, Little Failure.
“Tradition demands that heroines in Russian literature fare poorly. Tolstoy’s Karenina jumps in front of a train; Karamzin’s Poor Liza drowns herself in a pond, Pasternak’s Lara dies in the Gulag. In Inga’s Zigzags, Vica Miller’s saucy first novel, that tradition may have met its match. Meet Inga Belova, love child of Perestroika, Glasnost, and the global economy, whose vocational ambitions are exceeded only by her appetite for sex. Inga doesn’t throw herself in front of trains; she is the train.”
~ Peter Selgin, author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Fiction, and Life Goes to the Movies, a novel, as well as two books on writing craft, By Cunning & Craft and 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers, and a memoir, Confessions of a Left-Handed Man.
"I loved every moment of this book, and was shocked by how quickly I was turning the pages. I couldn't put it down. The themes it explores are ones to which we can all relate: feelings of not fitting in, struggling in relationships where your lover's intentions are unclear, and simply the constant battle to find yourself and get comfortable with your own desires and life goals. Life is complicated, and I appreciate Vica Miller's ability to capture that in a page-turning, well written novel that never bores."~ Katie Schoolov, KPBS
Marketing Plan
Calendar of Readings & Book Signings for Inga’s Zigzags (NYC and around)
* Book Launch at Book Culture, West 112th Street, May 14, 2014
* Vica Miller Russia! Salon, Mimi Ferzt Gallery, May 20, 2014
* Generation R, JCC Manhattan, May 22, 2014
* Brooklyn Book Launch, Coney Island Museum, June 27, 2014
* BookHampton Reading Series, July 27, 2014
* The Catskills Book Club, Liberty, NY, August 19, 2014
* Lit at Lark, September 21, 2014
* Sackett Street Writers’ Reading Series, Book Court, Brooklyn, 10/2014
* Pen Parentis Literary Salon - Andaz Wall Street, November 11, 2014
* Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY, December 8, 2014
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780991383405 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
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