Author Description

From AudioFile When June Carver leaves L.A. to live in Bulgaria, her life unravels in a series of personal setbacks and bad decisions. Aasne Vigesaa's reading weathers the trials of June's expatriate life, as well as Annie Ward's sometimes self-conscious writing style. The story, while predictable, is entertaining, and Vigesaa's accents and character embellishments improve Ward's prose, adding dimension and depth to each character. Vigesaa reads the Balkan accents fluidly, and her narration of the Bulgarian language is beautiful; in fact, her reading of the Balkan characters makes them more compelling than her portraits of the Americans. H.L.S. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine Product Description At first, June appears to be the ideal California girl - blond hair, blue eyes, a production assistant at a film company, and married to a hot property about to get his doctorate - but she abandons her home and job to follow her husband to Bulgaria. Within a month of their arrival, June turns thirty and her husband leaves her for a young local girl. As difficult as it is for her to be without him and virtually friendless in a country on the verge of civil war, June doesn't run home. She drinks too much, falls into the arms of a Mafia kingpin, gets caught up in the revolution, and little by little revels in her new vision of the world outside the American periscope. She survives and learns that loss can be an opportunity and that loneliness gives a person time to change her life. About the Author Ward has a Masters in Screenwriting from UCLA, and her film "Strange Habit," starring Joey Lauren Adams (of "Chasing Amy" fame), was an Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival and the first place Grand Jury Prize winner at the Aspen Film Festival. She is currently living in Sofia, where she is working on a project for her Fulbright Scholarship until the fall of this year, while writing a screenplay for Mille