num_pages: 256
description: Kate Wheeler's stories feature peripatetic Americans who seek love or enlightenment - or both - in far-flung corners of the globe. A startling mixture of gentle irony, mischievous humor, and unexpected danger marks the paths of all these characters as they follow their circuitous routes toward happiness. As the New York Times said, "Wheeler has a capacity for compressing the insights of cross-cultural dislocation into deliciously memorable epiphanies."
language: English
title: Not Where I Started From
titlecomplete: Not Where I Started From
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 57
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial