"Lives up to the billing as "a travel, adventure, humor, memoir kind of book"--and a really good one, at that."
Newcomer Troost nests on a tiny island in the vast Pacific, finding it strange and unappealing, though not utterly without its pleasures.
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"Troost is now washed up in landlocked Sacramento, but this "unapologetic escapist" should soon be on the move."
Troost returns to the South Pacific, where he had spent a couple years on Kiribati (The Sex Lives of Cannibals, 2004), when the sensory overload of life in Washington, D.C., gave way to a gilded weariness.
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