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Follows Joe, an American Peace Corps worker in Turkmenistan, and his native Turkmen friend Azat, in a study of cross-cultural friendship and idealization of the American dream.
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Joe is an American in the strange land of Turkmenistan who finds a good friend in Azat, a Turkmen dreamer whose optimism knows no bounds. With tales of doomed desert cab rides, nights of endless vodka shots, unlikely Turkmen business schemes, and secret girlfriends, Lonergan captures the bizareness of his Peace Corps experience in the former Soviet republic.
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