A new country can become home. Along the way, it can change the way you see your old one.

In The Sun Also Rises On Expats: Exploring New Horizons, American writer Randy Green continues the story of building a new life as a foreign English teacher in China. Book Three of The Expat Chronicles follows the spring of 2004, as the unfamiliar begins to feel like home and a one-semester adventure raises a larger question: What would it take to stay?

Drawn from journals and correspondence, these true stories move from classrooms and campus friendships to Henan's peony gardens, Buddhist grottoes, mountain roads, markets, and shared meals. Learning to cook, navigating everyday practicalities, and answering questions from friends back in America become part of the daily work of belonging. There is humor in the misunderstandings and pleasure in the small discoveries.

More than twenty years later, Green revisits those early experiences in his recurring "The View From 50,000 Feet" reflections. His subject reaches beyond China: how living as an expat in another culture can challenge familiar assumptions, widen your perspective, and open possibilities for personal reinvention.

For readers of expat memoirs, travel writing, teaching-abroad stories, and accounts of starting over, this is a personal look at the gradual transformation from visitor to participant. Continue the journey begun in The Expat Has Landed and An Expat Is Born.