Josey is our typical chick lit heroine, bummed because her sister is marrying her one time boyfriend and she has to wear a poppy inspired bridesmaid dress. So her solution to escaping from her dead end life in the small Minnesota town she grew up in is to sign up for a one year tour as a missionary to Russia. Her motives for doing so seem sort of slim, but she survives missionary training and is soon esconsed in a Moscow apartment, trying to negotiate the culture shock and frigid weather. This being a chick lit novel, she becomes involved in a romantic entanglement, all the while secretly pining for her best guy friend back home.
This was a great romp of a novel, Josey is a typical witty chick lit heroine. The spiritual content was a bit slight, but she does learn a few things about faith and the author is blessedly frank about problems within the church/missionary community. The plot was totally predictable, but the cultural touches from the authors real life experiences in Russia were great. Definately a good "beach read". ( )