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Stories evoke the theme of Americans struggling to cope in the midst of strange cultures, such as a teenager in Central America, a New Yorker in Miami's Little Cuba, and a novitiate in a Burmese monastery
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Kate Wheeler's stories feature peripatetic Americans who seek love or enlightenment - or both - in far-flung corners of the globe. A startling mixture of gentle irony, mischievous humor, and unexpected danger marks the paths of all these characters as they follow their circuitous routes toward happiness. As the New York Times said, "Wheeler has a capacity for compressing the insights of cross-cultural dislocation into deliciously memorable epiphanies."
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