Eating Kimchi and Nodding Politely by Alex Clermont
* I received a complimentary copy from the author in exchange for an honest review. Paperback Kindle Nook Publisher: Alex Clermont November 2012 75 pages Synopsis: Imagine leaving behind everybody and everything familiar to live in a foreign country where you don't speak the language and don't know a soul. Worst yet, you look different from everybody there. People find your cultural norms insulting, and you can't get a date to save your life. Imagine you wrote a book about your time there... Eating Kimchi and Nodding Politely is a collection of snapshots that cover the two years that Alex Clermont lived in the country of South Korea as an English teacher. Scribed with a flair for humor, emotion, character and depth, these introspective narratives do more than act as a travel guide. They are creatively written windows into the life of of someone discovering new things about himself, the world, and the people who he shares it with-all w...