Village Books in Historic Fairhaven

In post-Soviet Russia, Tanya carries a notebook wherever she goes, recording her observations and her dreams of finding love. As she scrambles to hold onto her dreams, along the way she discovers that love may have been waiting in her own courtyard all along.

Gina Ochsner is the author of two collections of short stories, People I Wanted to Be and The Necessary Grace to Fall, both of which won the Oregon Book Award.  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Glimmer Train, and many others.  She is a recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Ruth Hindman Foundation Prize, Guggenheim and NEA grants, and the Raymond Carver Prize.  She lives in Keizer, Oregon.