Almost Home: The Asian Search of a Geographic Trollop

by Janet Brown

Overview

Certain that she wants to spend the rest of her life in Bangkok, Janet Brown moves to Thailand, only to find bombs and civil unrest in the Land of Smiles. She sets off to find her new home in Asia, looking in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Penang with mixed results.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934159552
Publisher:	ThingsAsian Press
Publication date:	05/30/2013
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Janet Brown is a former bookseller who lives in Seattle and travels to Asia whenever she can. Born in Manhattan and brought up in Alaska, she tends to be attracted to extremes. She hates bad coffee, bedbugs, and writing her own marketing material.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Kim Fay
Following Fred
Bangkok
Hong Kong
Beijing
Penang
Home Ground

Editorial Reviews

In Almost Home, Janet Brown writes with the affability of a wise local who’s  delighted to stroll with you through her Asian city streets and wryly point out all the things you wouldn’t have noticed if you’d gone on your own. That’s what travel writing is all about.”—Colin Cotterill, author of The Coroner’s Lunch, Grandad There’s a Head on the Beach, and The Woman Who Wouldn’t  Die


“Janet’s talent as a traveler is to immerse herself without reservation or motive in the experience, and her talent as a writer is to convey that experience without a filter. Not for her wieldy paragraphs expounding on the social significance of this or her own emotions regarding that. Instead, you open the page and you are, simply, wonderfully, there.”—Kim Fay, author of Map of Lost Memories

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