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Six years ago, Mischa Reese left her abusive husband and suffocating life in California and reinvented herself in steamy, chaotic Hanoi. In Vietnam, she finds satisfying work and enjoys a life of relative luxury and personal freedom. Thirty-five and single, Mischa believes that romance and passion are for teenagers; a view with which her cynical, promiscuous expat friends agree.
But then a friend introduces Mischa to his visiting eighteen-year-old son. Cal is a strikingly attractive Vietnamese-Australian boy, but he's resentful of his father, and of the nation which has stolen him away. His beauty and righteous idealism awaken something in Mischa and the two launch into an affair that threatens Mischa's friendships and reputation and challenges her sense of herself as unselfish and good.
Set among the louche world of Hanoi's expatriate community, Fishing for Tigers is about a woman struggling with the morality of finding peace in a war-haunted city, personal fulfilment in the midst of poverty and sexual joy with a vulnerable youth.
But then a friend introduces Mischa to his visiting eighteen-year-old son. Cal is a strikingly attractive Vietnamese-Australian boy, but he's resentful of his father, and of the nation which has stolen him away. His beauty and righteous idealism awaken something in Mischa and the two launch into an affair that threatens Mischa's friendships and reputation and challenges her sense of herself as unselfish and good.
Set among the louche world of Hanoi's expatriate community, Fishing for Tigers is about a woman struggling with the morality of finding peace in a war-haunted city, personal fulfilment in the midst of poverty and sexual joy with a vulnerable youth.
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Mischa, a middle-aged woman damaged by the legacy of an abusive marriage, has fled to Vietnam six years ago to escape her past and find a sense of identity and belonging. She spends her time working for an English language magazine and socialising...
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Mischa has spent the last 6 years living in Hanoi, the place she ran to when she finally escaped her abusive husband Glen. Life as an ex-pat is easy going, care free. Nights are spent in restaurants drinking too much beer or too many cocktails, sex...
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I strongly believe that every book has its' readers, and I was not the right kind of reader for this particular title. Having said that, I can certainly see the appeal that this book would have to a lot of readers. Actually, with the whole ‘Fifty...
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