Michael Palmer is an American writer living in Chongqing, China.
Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, he has spent the past sixteen years in China documenting expatriate life, ambition, isolation, and reinvention during a period of extraordinary social and economic change.
His first book, LBH — Loser Back Home, chronicles the uncertainty and strange freedom of building a life far from home.
LBH — Loser Back Home
Part memoir and part journal, LBH follows an American navigating life in China during a transformative decade of rapid change, personal reinvention, and growing uncertainty.
Written under the pseudonym Mike Palmer, the book explores expat life, ambition, isolation, nightlife, and the strange feeling of building a life far from home.
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LBH — Loser Back Home (PDF)
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Part memoir, part journal, LBH traces an American’s years in China through upheaval, ambition, loneliness, and reinvention
LBH — Loser Back Home
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Part memoir, part journal, LBH traces an American’s years in China through upheaval, ambition, loneliness, and reinvention
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