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Just finished Adam Schroeder's In the Fabled East and loved it. Pierre Lazarie , a young French civil servant with little focus in life, is drawn into the story of Adelie Tremier by her adult son. In his quest to find her, he also finds a purpose for himself. During his journey up the Mekong River, Schroeder fills your senses with the heat, sights and smells of the tropical jungle, its people and wildlife. And then there is Adelie. A woman who had a purpose right from the beginning of her life in France to half way across the world and to the edge of her own death. Schroeder weaves their wanderings together until the two stories that start off 25 years apart are brought… Read more
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