Description

In the tradition of countercultural storytelling, this gritty quasi-fictional travel memoir is a brutally honest dive into the expat underworld. Charlie Birch is a 40-year-old American washout fleeing a dead-end life in San Francisco for capricious explorations in Asia. Landing a strange job in Taiwan and mainland China, he quickly descends into the boozy, sex-and-drugs-fueled fringes of expat society. One part dark-humor melodrama, one part unapologetic travelogue, Year of the Rat chronicles misadventures, blurred professional lines, and a chaotic search for meaning. The first book of Adams' Lunar New Years series offers a no-holds-barred look at life on the edge and the universal journey of reinvention. Read the new wave of transgressive literary fiction, carrying the torch of Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski. Approx. 222 pages.