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Pleased to Be Otherwise

By: Gina Ochsner
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
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Timi, a boy in Uzbekistan, navigates a strange world of camel breeding, half-understood Islamic doctrine, Mexican soap operas dubbed into Uzbek, and the legacy of widespread pollution from the Soviet era, all while dreaming of doing death-defying stunts on his rickety motorcycle. Lonely and accident-prone, Timi befriends an American humanitarian worker in a struggling marriage, tries to avoid his father's frequent rages, and plans out the astonishing motorcycle jump that will give meaning to his life. A brilliant, comic look at an almost unknown country and its fascinating contradictions.

Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College.

©2013 Emerson College (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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