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Overview

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 chronicl...