A TASTEFUL ODYSSEY
Venturing out into the greater world often presents boundless opportunities. All you’ve got to do is take the first step out, even if it’s perilous. For 20-year-old college dropout Tiller Bardmon, he falls into a rabbit hole unexpectedly, thanks to his sensitive tastebuds and a friendship with Pong Lou, a shrewd Chinese-American entrepreneur acquaintance. Pandemonium ensures, obviously.
Tiller’s adventures are penned by Chang-rae Lee, Pulitzer Prize finalist and award-winning author of and , in his sixth. Keeping tight-lipped about his intentions with this narrative, Lee professes that “a novel should be about many things, most of those notions open-ended and mysterious. A novel should capture the vitality of human experience and the world, in whatever it chooses to focus on, in order to present something new and fresh.
