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December 2019 Book, Saving Fish from Drowning

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Saving Fish from Drowning describes the adventures of a group of 12 American tourists, ranging from a neurotic hypochondriac to a British-born dogshow host, who are on an art tour of China and Burma. The narrative intensifies when 11 of them are kidnapped at Lake Inlay in Burma's Shan State - they are held in jungle-covered mountains by a group of desperate Karen refugee tribesmen, who believe that one of the tourists is the reincarnation of their god Younger White Brother, come to free them from the yoke of the brutal and murderous military government. The novel has all the ingredients for a pulse-racing read: Westerners in exotic surroundings, murder, myth, mystery, conspiracy, kidnapping, bad guys, good guys, stupid guys and even a ghost.  The descriptions of the tourists are highly entertaining, and their interactions dynamic and spontaneous.