After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, Gillian Kendall embarks on a strange journey with no ports of call but exotic emotional landscapes. She is the only female aboard, surrounded by Chinese men. The cosmopolitan graduate student suddenly has to adjust to an alien world, thick with cigarette smoke, unusual sea creatures, and male sexuality. Kendall invites readers to travel with her across cultural divides as deep and mysterious as the Pacific while she ...
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After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, Gillian Kendall embarks on a strange journey with no ports of call but exotic emotional landscapes. She is the only female aboard, surrounded by Chinese men. The cosmopolitan graduate student suddenly has to adjust to an alien world, thick with cigarette smoke, unusual sea creatures, and male sexuality. Kendall invites readers to travel with her across cultural divides as deep and mysterious as the Pacific while she explores her own culture, orientation, and heart.
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Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. BW2-Book bumped on some corners, date written on the back, and light shelf wear otherwise very good. A reeling, funny, moving journey across the Pacific Ocean, told b the sole woman aboard a Chinese ship.
Quite a lot of backstory here, but once the trip got underway I was hooked. Worth reading to find out how the author (ESL teacher to an all-Chinese crew) saves Mr. Ding's life if for no other reason!
