RUSSIAN LESSONS

A divorced writer and mother of an eight-year-old little girl gets involved with a tempestuous thirty-year-old Russian illegal immigrant.

What starts as a sexy and edgy romance with no strings attached, quickly turns into a darker bond of obsession and compulsion as Yuri constantly pushes the limits sexually and emotionally, driving their relationship to an intense and brutal pitch. Their stormy liaison eventually threatens the narrator’s life as her own complicated feelings and vulnerabilities violently conflict with Yuri’s desperate pursuit of love and security in the US – just as 9/11 strikes. Catherine Texier was born and raised in France and writes both in French and in English. She has lived in Paris, Montreal and New York. She is the author of six novels, CHLOÉ L’ATLANTIQUE (written in French and published in Paris), LOVE ME TENDER, PANIC BLOOD, VICTORINE, YOUNG WOMAN WITH A BUNCH OF LILAC (forthcoming in Italy in 2016), RUSSIAN LESSONS (pub. February 2016). Her memoir BREAKUP was an international bestseller. VICTORINE won Elle Magazine’s 2004 Readers’ Prize Best Novel of the Year. LOVE ME TENDER was a Village Voice bestseller in 1987. Her work has been translated into ten languages. She has written extensively for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Newsday, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Marie-Claire, and Nerve.com. She was co-editor of the literary magazine Between C&D. She lives in New York City.