by Amy Tan, 2005
Strange but interesting book about 12 tourists who went to Burma (Myanmar) and got kidnapped by jungle tribe who thought one of them was the Young White Brother who would save them from the SLORC – the military junta, make them disappear, etc. Told from the point of view of Bibi Chen, who was their leader who set up the trip, but was killed a few days before they were to leave. The whole book we think she was brutally murdered but in the last pages, it turns out she fell and impaled her dead mother’s jade hair comb in her throat. She is not very likable, and most of the tourists are not very likable. But, all-in-all, a pretty good book. Learned quite a bit about Burma and its repressive military regime.