FIELDWORK
by Mischa Berlinski
(Holtzbrink, $14.00)
In which a hipster-ish young American goes to Thailand and gets sucked into the worlds of anthropologists and missionaries with the most remote villages and obscure tribes as backdrop. There’s a murder mystery, many entertaining anthropological digressions, even more entertaining insights into the minds of white missionaries among the heathens, and, beneath it all, some really good writing that makes you think even as you’re laughing.
