When young, American women dream of finding themselves in a foreign country, it’s usually an “Eat, Pray, Love” style trip. Audrey Murray joins us to talk about how she skipped the well-worn enlightenment path in favor of a tour of former Soviet republics, which she writes about in “Open Mic Night in Moscow: And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men” (William Morrow).
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