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After months of wandering, he crosses paths with other dejected travelers: Sophea, a short-fused NGO worker; Arthur, a brazen expat abandoned by his wife and son; and Winston, a defiant intellectual exile. Bound by pleasure-fueled self-destruction, the group flounders from one Asian city to another, confronting the mixture of grief, betrayal, and discrimination that caused them to travel in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuillermo tells the stories of American expatriates seeking to lose or remake themselves in the far-flung corners of Asia. His narrative voice-steady, visual, and evocative-is complemented by his keen ear for dialogue.\u003cbr\u003e-Peter Bacho, author of Cebu and winner of the American Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuillermo's novel teaches the reader how to engage the world and reveals the very best about being a traveler rather than a tourist. 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