Lindsey Salatka is a mother, author, ghostwriter, editor, and general over-committer who feels happy and lucky to do so. She blogs and loves to dance and sing karaoke (her friends and the majority of innocent bystanders are less excited about her passions). Lindsey’s writing has been featured on blogher.com, ewriterscoach.com, In The Loop, Shanghai Family Magazine, Urbanatomy: Shanghai, and thefeistywriter.com, where she was the managing editor for two years. A non-fiction piece she wrote was recently chosen to be in Volume 3 of the anthology Shaking the Tree. She is on the advisory board of the San Diego Writers Festival, where she wears a variety of hats and loves to revel in her element with her tribe. Fish Heads and Duck Skin is her debut novel. She is currently working on a non-fiction book and a sequel to her novel. Most nights find Lindsey curled up with her family or musing about life, love, and culture on her blog, Fishheadology. She currently resides in San Diego, California.

On the advice of a five-dollar psychic, Tina Martin, a zany, overworked mother of two, quits her high-powered job and moves her family to Shanghai. Tina yearns for this new setting to bring her the zen-like inner peace she’s always heard about on infomercials. Instead, she becomes a totally exasperated fish out of water, doing wacky things like stealing the shoes of a shifty delivery man, spraying local women with a bidet hose, and contemplating the murder of her new pet cricket.

It takes the friendship of an elderly tai chi instructor, a hot Mandarin tutor, and several mah-jongg-tile-slinging expats to bring Tina closer to a culture she doesn’t understand, the dream job she never knew existed, and the self she has always sought. Fish Heads and Duck Skin will resonate with anyone who has ever wondered who they are, why they were put here, and how they ever lived before eating pan-fried pork buns.