The Bulgarian Training Manual

<p><b><i>The Bulgarian Training Manual </i>is a comic novel that tells the story of Tina in her quest to find her true parents and jeans that fit.</b></p><p>With the help of a mysterious book with magical powers Tina makes her way from her waterlogged apartment in Hoboken New Jersey to an Oz-like journey to Bulgaria and back. Our heroine is the catalyst for a final contest that is part body-builder pose-off and part poetry slam.</p><p>The novel is a sly and comic look at self-improvement our self-doubts and fervent dreams and our endless internal yammering. Those who follow <i>The Bulgarian Training Manual</i> add more than muscle. They become poets.</p>