Alan Cheuse reviews Abandon by Pico Iyer, a novel about a British literature student who falls in love in California. It's published by Knopf.
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Alan Cheuse died on July 31, 2015. He had been in a car accident in California earlier in the month. He was 75. Listen to NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamburg's retrospective on his life and career.