Living Globally: Stories from my International Life

Living Globally — Table of Contents

Stories from my International Life

  1. Part 1: Introduction
  2. Part 2: Peace Corps Staging (San Francisco)
  3. Part 3: Layover in Tokyo, en route to Seoul
  4. Part 4: The Daerimjang Training Center, Cheongju, Korea
  5. Part 5: Settling in Chonju
  6. Part 6: Winter Break in Japan
  7. Part 7: Peace Corps Highlights, 1976–77
  8. Part 8: The Long and Winding Road Home
  9. Part 9: Domestic Interlude and Reflection
  10. Part 10: Back to Singapore
  11. Part 11: Expat Life in Singapore
  12. Part 12: To Los Angeles and Back
  13. Part 13: Singapore Redux
  14. Part 14: Harvard and Kazakhstan
  15. Part 15: Taking the Dream Job
  16. Part 16: Starting Work at the World Bank
  17. Part 17: Working in China
  18. Part 18: Working in Indonesia
  19. Part 19: Working in Vietnam
  20. Part 20: Return to Korea
  21. Part 21: The Rest of East Asia
  22. Part 22: On My Own
  23. Part 23: What’s Next?

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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