Miss Fortune by
Albina Hume is a memoir of one woman’s journey from poverty in the Ukraine to
animal activism in Africa. It is a life which many of us can hardly imagine but
a classic story of picking yourself up from the dust and creating a great life
in any way possible.
The story opens with a prologue, Albina is eagerly awaiting
the arrival of her wedding invitations which features a butterfly as a
representation of the beginning of new life. She lives on a ranch in Africa
with her fiance, John, who works to save the white rhinos from extinction. The
short, then, flashes back to childhood and life in the Ukraine. She struggled
with the pronunciation of the letter “R” and was horribly teased because of it.
She would spend her life trying to avoid all words with Rs, which would be
proved hard in a language with strong R pronunciations like Russian. She would
be educated in boarding schools and when she has her diploma in hand, she would
try to find a job. Only the doors to steady work would be closed to her as
employers discovered she was a villager. She soon gets into deep debt, trying
to make a living and turns to exotic dancing in order to pay those off. She
would soon find herself in Greece, where she would fall in and out of love as
she is used and betrayed by men who lied. She would eventually turn to a
marriage agency which leads her to John and his ranch in Africa.
I received a PDF copy of this book which was hard to read at
first, mainly because I have never read a book in this format before. But once
I figured it out, the book was a fast read because it kept me intrigued. Her
story seems only like it was written for a movie. Her story was all the more
heart wrenching because she lived it. As I read her descriptions of her
journey, her disappointments, her struggles, I found myself horrified that this
was her journey but I rejoiced with her as she found love and a new purpose in
her life. I recommend Miss Fortune as
a life story which will inspire and encourage other to take their life
circumstances and change them for the better.
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