![]() ![]() While ensemble casting precludes the intimacy that characterizes Tan's mother-daughter stories, the book branches out with a broad plot and dynamic digressions. Tan's travelers, who range from a neurotic hypochondriac to the debonair, self-involved host of a show called The Fido Files The tourists find themselves trapped in jungle-covered mountains, held by a refugee tribe that believes Rupert, the group's surly teenager, is the reincarnation of their god Younger White Brother, come to save them from the unstable, militaristic Myanmar government. ![]() Making the best of it, the 11 friends who aren't hung over depart their Myanmar resort on Christmas morning to boat across a misty lake-and vanish. Violently murdered days before takeoff, she's reduced to watching her friends bumble through their travels from the remove of the spirit world. San Francisco socialite and art-world doyenne Bibi Chen has planned the vacation of a lifetime along the notorious Burma Road for 12 of her dearest friends. ) delivers another highly entertaining novel, this one narrated from beyond the grave. ![]()
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