“After twenty years of working in broadcast and Internet journalism, Napoli was deeply unsatisfied with her life. So when an encounter with a stranger brought her a chance to chuck everything and move halfway around the world, she decided that having a midlife crisis in the Himalayas made as much sense as doing it in L.A. Leaving behind acres of grid-lock traffic, she moved to a country without a single traffic light to help set up the kingdom’s first youth-oriented radio station. Once there, she found that living in a deeply religious society where happiness is more highly valued than material goods was just what she needed to come to terms with her own problems. . . .”—Terrell, Wide World Books & Maps, Seattle
Face Out
Radio Shangri-La: What I learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth by Lisa Napoli
May 26, 2011