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Amy Nash Parker
A friend gave me this book to read during our travels in Croatia, offering it as a light read which gives some
Insight into the culture from an American expat. I admit, I laughed a lot at the early “American abroad” trope jokes and observations and realized that I, too, had associated Croatia with “Russia” somehow.

“Part of the blame for this ignorance is the US’s own geography. We live between two huge-ass oceans and tend to lump everything on the other side into the category of “over there”…..i
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