Tea Of Ulaanbaatar

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In his debut novel, Christopher Howard travels to the furthest and rarely seen reaches of the world, Mongolia. Warren is a disaffected Peace Corps volunteer who flees life in late capitalist America to find himself stationed in the post-industrialist urban hell of Mongolia. Needing to find an escape from his escape, Warren seeks solace in 'tsus', the mysterious blood tea that may be the final revenge of the defeated Khans - or that may be only a powerful hallucinogen operating on an uneasy mind - as a phantasmagoria of violence slowly envelops him.

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WithTea of Ulaanbataar, Chris Howard takes us to a rarely seen corner of the world, and then takes us further, into a spooky, trippy, gritty realm that is entirely his own. Eli Horowitz, Publisher of McSweeney's


"Like Robert Bingham'sLightning on the Sun,Tea of Ulaanbaataris a merciless dissection of lost young American volunteers drifting through a violent and absurd third-world capital. Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster and Songs for the Missing


It's youthful idealism gone wild in Howard's striking debut . . . . [T]ight and witty writing. -Publishers Weekly


An accomplished novel with a keen sense of atmosphere and description. Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

Author Bio

After an adolescence spent in Illinois and Missouri, Christopher Howard set off with the Peace Corps for Mongolia in the late 1990s, before returning home with a severe case of giardiasis. His short story "How to Make Millions in the Oil Market," published in McSweeney's and inspired by his time abroad, was nominated for the 2008 National Magazine Award in Fiction. Along with Jodi Picoult, he was one of two authors selected to provide a short story for the launch of Amazon Singles in January 2011. Howard lives in Illinois.