This isn't Geoff Dyer's self-help book. Rather it is a book about how the author himself could do with a little help. In funny and thought-provoking prose, he describes a life most of us would love to live - and how much that life frustrates and aggravates him. From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya, from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Dyer finds himself floundering in a sea of grievances and loses himself in moments of transcendental calm: a wonky quest for peak experiences that leads, ultimately, to the Zone - the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, where he loses himself in the Burning Man experience.