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Standard Deviations: Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia by Karl Taro Greenfeld [in AsianWeek]

Standard DeviationsAt 23, Greenfeld “set off for Asia to become a writer, intrigued by the lurid tales of booms, busts, drugs, sex, violence, magic.” Part memoir, part social history, all wild ride, Deviations catches glimpses of a changing, bursting, capitalistic Asia from the late ’80s through the end of the 20th century with bad-boy Greenfeld as guide.

Review: “New and Notable Nonfiction,” AsianWeek, July 18, 2002

Readers: Adult

Published: 2002

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