Benjamin Shultz considered himself to be a worldly, educated, and well-traveled student of culture, ready to take on any adventure. After completing a Ph.D. in geography and teaching at an American university for a few semesters, love took him to Macedonia, his wife's home country, where he encountered a whole new world for which all of his previous travel and studies had left him unprepared. Almost immediately after his arrival in 2013 he began documenting his experiences as he negotiated completely different social customs, navigated notorious Eastern European bureaucracies, and learned a...