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mosaiqa is Helen Faller’s effort to create connections in a fragmented world.

Helen is a writer.  To read selections from Love Feasts: A Memoir of Dumplings–and Divorce–on the Silk Road, click here. Follow Helen’s mosaiqa exploits on Facebook here and as her alternative persona, the dumpling girl. We’re also on Instagram and Twitter.

Helen is a nerdy anthropologist. To find out more about that, click here. Here’s information about her first book on Tatarstan.

Helen lived in Russia right after the USSR collapsed. She wrote about this in the Russia Cycle stories here.

Helen produces music. For more on that, see here and here.

Helen toured Kyrgyz epic singer Rysbai Isakov, the top-ranked (yes, they have contests and ranking) singer of The Manas, the longest epic poem in the world.

To contact Helen, send an email to [email protected].