This book leaves me deeply unsatisfied. It's about a series of experience related to queerness of an American teacher living in Bulgaria told in different vignettes. I find Bulgaria to be badly and lazily represented. The narrator claims that he has some sense of belonging in Bulgaria and yet he comes across as some foreigner who scoffs at Bulgaria's "backwardness" whenever possible. And then there's the gay angst aspect - I love gay angst books but, really, there's more "angst" than "gay" in here. I feel that it lacks surgical, nuanced descriptions of being gay (or part of the LGBTQ) in Bulgaria.