Memoirs of a Muse: A Novel
by Lara Vapnyar
Category: Fiction

Obsessed by Dostoyevsky and the woman who became his muse, Tanya emigrates to New York City from the former Soviet Union and falls in with Mark Schneider, a writer for whom she is determined to be all things--lover, source of inspiration, and more--if only she can persuade him to spend less time at the shrink, the gym, and literary soirees. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.