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In his debut short story collection, Jonan Pilet explores the lives of Mongols and expats looking for a sense of home within the nomadic culture. Based on the author's insights having grown up in Mongolia, the series of interlinked narratives capture the cultural turmoil Mongolia experienced after the fall of the Soviet Union, painting a vivid picture of Mongol landscapes, Western interactions, and the rise in cultural tensions. An orphaned Mongolian girl lives in the sewers of Ulaanbaatar. An American boy falls in love with a Mongolian girl who has committed patricide. A group of nomadic traders are stuck in a blizzard in the Mongolian steppe. In these eleven stories, Western misconceptions of Mongolia are dispelled as home is discovered to be a transcultural human need.

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Praise for Nomad, Nomad Stories Set in Mongolia where there is more in the sky than in the earth, this collection of stories by Jonan Pilet depicts the raw ferocity of life as a missionary on the steppes. In this book, faith in God and human relationships are tested: plagues of locusts, frozen rivers to cross by horse, and the cold rhythm of long winters brightened by the comfort of a stove's heat and mutton soup. Nomad, Nomad is a wonderful debut. - Karen An-hwei Lee, author of The Maze of Transparencies In Nomad, Nomad, Jonan Pilet joins a distinguished roster of writers whose stories of foreign worlds transcend travel and enter the realm of imaginative quests, of lives and worlds hidden, discovered, and transformed. Pilet's fiction is beautifully wrought and unsparing, tender, revelatory, and wise. - Robert Clark, Edgar Award-winning author of Mr. White's Confession: A Novel In prose that is both nimble and vivid, Pilet reveals the cold-lashed, wind-swept exterior landscapes of Mongolia as well as the aching interior landscapes of the rich varied characters traversing these stories. Whereas some writers write as spectators piling up observations, these stories have the feel of lived experience, of a writer writing from the inside out. Each story bristles with tension and astonishing detail. Each story is written with boundless compassion. In each story, Pilet takes our human urges, fears and longings and makes sheer music. - Gina Ochsner, author of The Hidden Letters of Velta B. Jonan Pilet's stories are visceral, transporting, and tenderly human-with the lyricism of a poet, he brings his characters and landscapes so vividly to life. I would follow this writer anywhere. - Danya Kukafka, author of Girl in Snow

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Jonan Pilet has called many places home - Ulaanbaatar, Chiang Mai, Seattle, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Upstate New York, and Oxford - and they all have a bit of his heart. Currently, he lives in Upstate New York. By day, he is a journalist, and by night, he is a novelist. He studied writing at Houghton College, the University of Oxford, and received his MFA at Seattle Pacific University. Pilet has had short stories published with Allegory Ridge, Funicular Magazine, Inverted Syntax, Open Minds Quarterly among others. On the weekends, he goes on hikes with his wife and their aging Siberian Husky, cheers on his Seattle Seahawks, and reads his expanding list of favorite authors. To keep updated with Jonan's work, follow him on Instagram or Twitter - @jonanpilet, or visit his website -www.jonanpilet.wixsite.com/author.

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