by Anya Ulinich
PETROPOLIS is a satire and a love story. It's also about racism, academic art training, cross-cultural confusion, religion (and lack thereof), sex, class conflict, overweening charity, and three different kinds of mothers.
read the first chapter: http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/fof/petropolis.html
author site:
http://www.anyaulinich.com/
