Radio Shangri-La

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( What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth) One woman's story of reaching the crossroads of life--and finding happiness in the last Shangri-La. Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a midlife crisis, cynical about work and depressed about her love life, when a chance encounter with a handsome stranger led to the adventure of a lifetime. Leaving behind her job in public radio and her cosmopolitan life in Los Angeles, she moved to Bhutan, the happiest country on earth, to volunteer at the country's first radio station for the youth of Bhutan. In a country just beginning to open its doors to the modern world, which measures its success in Gross National Happiness rather than GDP, she finds that the world is a beautiful and complicated place and comes to appreciate her life for the adventure it is. About The Author LISA NAPOLI is a journalist whose last staff job was on the public radio show Marketplace. An early chronicler of the dawn of the World Wide Web as a columnist at the New York Times CyberTimes, she has also been the Internet correspondent at MSNBC. She began her career at CNN, worked in local news in North Carolina, and has directed several documentaries about Southern culture. www.LisaNapoli.com