The Girl from California - 2: Stories (Russian Edition)

Series: Russians in the USA, Volume 2 The Book is in the Russian language. It is a book of stories mainly written by Zoia Sproesser from 2009 to 2010. Some of the stories were published in an online Russian-English magazine. Yet others were never published before. These are favorite author's stories: about dating and other observations about culture and people in the culture: Russians, Americans, as well as other nationalities. Such stories as "Masseuse", "Librarian", "Greedy Kuzya", "Stripper", and others, are included in the book. The book can be easily read as a continuation of the first Zoia's book "The Girl from California", or it can be read as a separate book of stories about California. Whatever way it is read, the reader, as always, is up for a pleasant surprise at Zoia's humor, lively jokes, as well as the look on the recent life in California - its ups and downs, its real people, as seen by an optimistic Zoia. The book is very informative and can be used by Russian language instructors, and students as a great additional language tool of familiarizing with Russian point of view on the other cultures, as well as Russian sense of humor. Zoia is a bilingual professional who lives and works in California. She has a Master's Degree in Education and eight years of Spanish studies, that expands her cultural perception on literature to the three world languages. She has lived in California for 16 years.