National Magazine Award finalist Christopher Howards debut novel Tea of Ulaanbaatar tells the story of disaffected Peace Corps volunteer Warren who flees life in latecapitalist America to find himself stationed in the postSoviet industrial hell of urban Mongolia As the American presence crumbles Warren seeks escape in tsus the mysterious blood tea that may be the final revenge of the defeated Khansor that may be only a powerful hallucinogen operating on an uneasy mindas a phantasmagoria of violence slowly envelops himWith prose that combines Benjamin Kunkels satiric bite William Burroughss dark historical reimagining and a lush literary beauty all his own Christopher Howard in Tea of Ulaanbaatar unfolds a story of expatriate angst the dark side of globalization and middleclass nightmaresand announces himself as one of the most inventive and ambitious of the new generation of American novelists