The laugh-out-loud true story of a harrowing and hilarious two-year odyssey in
the distant South Pacific island nation of Kiribati.possibly The Worst Place on
Earth.

At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost.who had been pushing the snooze button
on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling
through a series of temp jobs.decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to
Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of Kiribati. He was
restless and lacked direction, and the idea of dropping everything and moving
to the ends of the earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better.

The Sex Lives of Cannibals tells the hilarious story of what happens when Troost
discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one
amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling
heat, a variety of deadly bacteria, polluted seas, toxic fish.all in a country
where the only music to be heard for miles around is .La Macarena.. He and his
stalwart girlfriend Sylvia spend the next two years battling incompetent
government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity, and
a paucity of food options (including the Great Beer Crisis); and contending
with a bizarre cast of local characters, including .Half-Dead Fred. and the self-
proclaimed Poet Laureate of Tarawa (a British drunkard who.s never written a poem
in his life).

With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost has delivered one of the most
original, rip-roaringly funny travelogues in years.one that will leave you thankful
for staples of American civilization such as coffee, regular showers, and tabloid
news, and that will provide the ultimate vicarious adventure.

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