![]() ![]() Evans tried to sneak into Myanmar – a military dictatorship only slightly less severe than North Korea – not once, but twice. That and other events sent Evans into a tailspin of bumbling happenstances. While both Evans and Carter were expatriates, or at least adventurers, the outcomes of their adventures were far different.Īs Carter tells it, Evans went to China to meet a supposed girlfriend who turned out to not really be girlfriend material at all – except possibly with other girls. What I’m curious about, though, is where the subject of this highly engaging creative nonfiction narrative, Matthew Evans, a native of Muscatine, Ia., fits as author into the book narrated by Tom Carter, who met Evans several times in China. John Steinbeck’s "The Red Pony," just 100 pages, is one of his greatest works. ![]() I don’t hold a book’s length alone against it, though. ![]() What I received in the mail was a relatively small volume, four-by-seven inches and 114 pages, not including prologue. When I was asked to review "An American Bum in China," I agreed. ![]()
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