My Year Abroad

By: Chang-rae Lee

tiller is an average american college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. pong lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative chinese american entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. when pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across asia, tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé, and...