Olga Grushin was born in Moscow and moved to the United States at 18. She is the author of THE CHARMED WIFE, FORTY ROOMS, THE LINE and THE DREAM LIFE OF SUKHANOV. Her debut, THE DREAM LIFE OF SUKHANOV, won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, earned her a place on Granta’s once-a-decade Best Young American Novelists list, and was one of The New York Times’ Notable Books of the Year. Both it and THE LINE were among The Washington Post’s Ten Best Books of the Year, and FORTY ROOMS was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of the Year. Grushin writes in English, and her work has been translated into 16 languages. She lives outside Washington, DC, with her two children.

Books by Olga Grushin

The Charmed Wife

by Olga Grushin - Fiction, Magical Realism

Cinderella married the man of her dreams --- the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, 13 and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up and exhausted, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron, Cinderella doesn't ask for a love spell to win back her Prince Charming. Instead, she wants him dead.