Ren was tired of offices. Meetings. People staring at screens and calling it a life. It wasn’t.
He quit. He left London with a rucksack and a one-way ticket to Bangkok–a year long search under the flickering neons of Southeast Asia for Life, Love, and Meaning.
But with hustlers, mercenaries, jailers, and a Brotherhood of Nigerians along the way, the search took longer.
And took him further.
Set in the 80s and 90s, when Burma denied visas to journalists, Beijing had one budget hotel, the USSR existed, and the best currency was Johnny Walker Red, this memoir of wanderlust is a coming-of-age story for anyone who has felt that the only way to find out where you belong is to throw away the map.
Against a backdrop of great societal change the stories paint the reasons we travel and includes elements of conflict, tragedy, hope, and romcom as our protagonist descends from fulfilling his dreams with the purest motives, into a hedonistic decline.
Like the cormorant used by the Ukai fishermen, will he be destined to catch the fish but not eat it or can he find redemption?
Take a look at the Table of Contents, or read the About page for information about the author.