Marketer by the Grace of God

2013. Nadia and Sonya moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow not long ago. Best friends, they’re happy with life: parties until morning, midnight walks through snowdrifts, a simple shared routine. But one day Nadia, a talented marketer, decides to change jobs. By pure coincidence she lands at a company that produces Orthodox Christian jewelry. Not knowing anything about Orthodox culture, Nadia keeps finding herself in funny situations and struggles to get used to professional slang (“Girls, do you know if the Lord with the apostles has already come to the warehouse?”), but the farther she goes, the more she starts to like this world.

The main heroine reminds of Fleabag from the TV series of the same name: she loves stringing along romances and has a “second adult rank” in cheating. Her new environment—and especially her new acquaintance, Nikita—make Nadia rethink her attitude toward love. At the same time, a drama is brewing: Nadia and Sonya are both in love with the same guy—Nikita. From now on, they spend all their time only together, and Nadia becomes completely tangled in her feelings.

“Marketing from God” is “Conversations with Friends” in early-2010s Moscow—woven with nostalgia for that time.

Ekaterina Kakurina graduated from the Higher Courses of the Literary Institute named after Gorky. A master’s graduate of the Faculty of Philology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics under the “Literary Mastery” program. A finalist of the literary prize “Debut” (2010) and the “Lyceum” prize (2020).