Lust in translation

With Russians suddenly free to emigrate, foreign men of­fered another route to prosperity. Love was optional. An Amer­ican who taught English in Moscow tells me that during a class presentation a young woman recounted how her friend Maria married an American man, had a child with him, then turned around and divorced him. Maria is now in America, living off the alimony and child support she collects from her former hus­band. In the class discussion that followed, the storyteller’s classmates praised Maria for her “cleverness” and castigated the American husband for allowing himself to be duped.

https://www.amazon.com/Lust-Translation-Infidelity-Tokyo-Tennessee/dp/0143113291