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Lost In Place: Growing up absurd in suburbia
Mark Salzman is the oldest child in a household of three children Ridgefield, Connecticut, the son of a piano teacher and social worker. Mark is first inspired to become a Zen master after seeing his first kung fu movie .
He burns incense, wears his bath robe and bald�head wig, learns kung fu,
and converts his basement into what he thinks is a Buddhist temple. His
kung fu teacher, Sensei O'Keefe is a tough man who has deep set eyes with heavy shadowes under them with aviator style glasses, a handle bar mustache
with a Fu Manchu beard growing down from his lower lip, and teeth that had clearly been rearranged several timed during his course to mastery. Sensei
O�Keefe teaches Mark how to overcome his enemies. Mark also decides to become an astronaut(but never becomes one), befriends a boy who is about his age named Michael, gets a few jobs, becomes a cellist, quits kung fu, studies Chinese calligraphy, learns the Chinese language, learns to drive, gets a scholarship at a college, visits China, learns more kung fu, writes a book about his experience and gets married. He lives a good life, but of course, it is not flawless.
Forrest�s rating: 5 out of 5
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