Lost in Liyun

When American professor Fred Marks steps off the train in Jinan, China, he thinks he is ready. Ready for a new beginning. Ready for a new job. Ready for a new life. But nothing prepared him for the heat, the confusion, or the isolation of starting over in a foreign country.

Lost in crowded hallways and unfamiliar city streets, Fred struggles with language barriers, cultural expectations, and the fear that he will never fit in. His days become a blur of quiet classrooms, awkward faculty banqu...