Description: The bestselling author of "The Sex Lives of Cannibals" returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China--a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained.
Review Quotes: Praise for
GETTING STONED WITH SAVAGES"One of Troost's greatest successes is that he's not reporting, exactly, not writing as a journalist would, but simply living his life in a faraway place and writing about it."
--New York Times
"Troost manages to relate his misadventures in an irreverently funny style . . . this makes for a good beach read on your own vacation."
--Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Praise for The Sex Lives of Cannibals
"A comic masterwork of travel writing" --Publishers Weekly "Troost has a command of place and narrative that puts him in the company of some of today's best travel writers." --Elle