The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)

by F.C. Yee

Earned. That was the thing about these merchants. They feigned enterprise and risk-taking when all they were doing was drinking from a river no one else was allowed to approach.

“He posits human beings are but surfaces, points of contact that don’t exist unless we interact with others and the world around us. The only space in which a road and a wheel become relevant is the infinitely thin, ever-changing stripe where they touch. Together, the cart rolls.”