My Year Abroad

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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A manifesto to happiness-the one found when you stop running from who you are." -New York Times Book Review "An extraordinary book, acrobatic on the level of the sentence, symphonic across its many movements-and this is a book thatmoves...My Year Abroadis a wild ride-a caper, a romance, a bildungsroman, and something of a satire of how to get filthy rich in rising Asia."-Vogue From the award-winning author ofNative SpeakerandOn Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure - and about the human capacities for pleasure, pain, and connection. Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to ...