"Tuya resents having to join her mother on a work trip to the remote Takhintal. She and her classmates in Ulaanbaatar have other plans for the summer vacation. But through her new friend Munkhjargal, the daughter of the park director of the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area, Tuya discovers rare animals in a stunning landscape. She comes to appreciate her mother's conservation efforts in a unique part of Mongolia previously unknown to her."

Michelle Borok is one of something like 9 million Americans who live overseas—nobody’s quite sure how many there are, nobody cares much about counting them. But one thing is certain: they are a more diverse group than you might think. This week, I’m talking with three American women, writers all—Michelle Borok, Sarah Souli, and Ruth Terry—about what it’s like to be Korean-American in Mongolia, Arab-American in Athens, and Black American in Istanbul, watching all this nonsense from afar. I’ll start with Ruth Terry in Istanbul, who talks about anti-blackness among white Americans overseas and about her dreams for what travel writing could become in a post-lockdown world.