EBOOK Tea of Ulaanbaatar

National Magazine Award finalist Christopher Howard's debut novel, Tea of Ulaanbaatar, tells the story of disaffected Peace Corps volunteer Warren, who flees life in late-capitalist America to find himself stationed in the post-Soviet industrial hell of urban Mongolia. As the American presence crumbles, Warren seeks escape in tsus, the mysterious "e;blood tea"e; that may be the final revenge of the defeated Khansor that may be only a powerful hallucinogen operating on an uneasy mindas a phantasmagoria of violence slowly envelops him.With prose that combines Benjamin Kunkel's satiric bite, William Burroughss dark historical reimagining, and a lush literary beauty all his own, Christopher Howard in Tea of Ulaanbaatar unfolds a story of expatriate angst, the dark side of globalization, and middle-class nightmaresand announces himself as one of the most inventive and ambitious of the new generation of American novelists.