Tea of Ulaanbaatar

By Christopher R. Howard

Disaffected Peace Corps volunteer Warren has fled life in the late-capitalist United States to find himself stationed, along with a nihilistic cadre of fellow Americans, in the post-Soviet industrial hell of urban Mongolia. As the American presence crumbles, Warren seeks escape in tsus, the mysterious "blood tea" that may be the final revenge of the defeated Khans--or that may be only a powerful hallucinogen operating on an uneasy mind--as a phantasmagoria of violence slowly envelops him.

With prose that combines Benjamin Kunkel's satiric bite, William Burroughs's dark historical reimagining, and a lush literary beauty all his own, Christopher Howard in Tea of Ulaanbaatar unfolds a story of expatriate angst, the dark side of globalization, and middle-class nightmares--and announces himself as one of the most inventive and ambitious of the new generation of American novelists.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B005CDUQNQ
• ISBN13: 9781609800864
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"