Fun story following a young restless American, Jeff Hartig, as he spends a year in the Peace Corps on an Apache reservation and two years teaching English in an isolated village in Kyrgyzstan. Characters from these years later converge during an earthquake when Jeff has a job in Istanbul, Turkey. Lively descriptions of exotic customs, foods and locales fill the book. Interesting people cross his path. However, Jeff himself is a selfless aimless kind of character who is hard to like. There's no explanation or resolution of his restlessness while the other people seem to find their places. The opening line can't be beat, "The idea to use porn films to encourage the dairy cows to breed was a poor one." It's an 8.
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