Last night I finished J. Maarten Troost's
The Sex Lives of Cannibals, his travel memoir of his two years on Tarawa, an atoll in the nation of Kiribati in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific. I wouldn't have survived the poor sanitation (people shit directly into the lagoons), lack of much of anything but fish to eat, and the constant Macarena in the background, but I'm glad I read about it. I'll have to check out his later book about life in Fiji.
posted by kristin at 11:57 AM 
