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This highly regarded blog is described by one reader as “the work of a modern Chekhov”. Impressions of an Expat is a fascinating novel-in-progress, a weekly dose of heartache, a chunk of solid writing to savor. The fact that the ongoing story is not fictional, that North is really an expat NYer that lived in Moscow for 15 years because his daughter was kidnapped there only deepens the experience. In 2022, the family fled to Tbilisi, Georgia and the story continues there.

Every Monday, the reader is presented with a dizzying array of true experiences - bittersweet, deeply personal and often revelatory. North survives, protects, cooks, finds love, makes music and shares his triumphs as well as his defeats in careful prose, often accompanied by his photographs and the occasional short film. Subscribers to Impressions of an Expat are in for a deeply satisfying and unique experience

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