Set against the striking backdrop of South Asia in the early years of the new millennium, Jaya Nepal! is a rollicking mini epic that takes readers into the bustling, exotic, and colorful world of urban Kathmandu.
Twenty-five-year-old Berkeley grad Benjamin Creed, an idealistic and motivated young recruit, begins his odyssey in a community curiously named Pepsicola Townplanning. The newly reinstated Nepal Peace Corps program, resurrected after the countrys lengthy and bloody civil war, has drawn a gauntlet of intrepid volunteers, joining him in an iconic, multiyear program.
Following Benjamin...