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In this linked essay collection, award-winning author Jeff Fearnside analyzes his four years as an educator on the Great Silk Road, primarily in Kazakhstan. Peeling back the layers of culture, environment, and history that define the country and its people, Fearnside creates a compelling narrative about this faraway land and soon realizes how the local, personal stories are, in fact, global stories. Fearnside sees firsthand the unnatural disas...

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These thirteen short stories are linked thematically by the recurring idea of flight, in its various definitions and senses. The characters ares ometimes in flight from their situations, sometimes from other people, sometimes from themselves. The stories range from contemporary to historical, from realistic to magical realist.