About the AuthorPaul Luchessa was born in Berkeley and educated at Harvard. He spent twenty years abroad, teaching English and traveling widely, mostly in Asia. He has published stories and articles in various publications, here and abroad. His story A Surfeit of Flesh, won first prize in the fiction competition of the Berkeley Poets' Cooperative. what is the 2nd most sold book in the world Squalor and Splendor: Expat Tales of East and West