While ensemble casting precludes the intimacy that characterizes Tan's mother-daughter stories, the book branches out with a broad plot and dynamic digressions. Tan's travelers, who range from a neurotic hypochondriac to the debonair, self-involved host of a show called The Fido Files The tourists find themselves trapped in jungle-covered mountains, held by a refugee tribe that believes Rupert, the group's surly teenager, is the reincarnation of their god Younger White Brother, come to save them from the unstable, militaristic Myanmar government. Making the best of it, the 11 friends who aren't hung over depart their Myanmar resort on Christmas morning to boat across a misty lake-and vanish. Violently murdered days before takeoff, she's reduced to watching her friends bumble through their travels from the remove of the spirit world. San Francisco socialite and art-world doyenne Bibi Chen has planned the vacation of a lifetime along the notorious Burma Road for 12 of her dearest friends. ) delivers another highly entertaining novel, this one narrated from beyond the grave.
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