Burnt out and facing a quarter-life crisis, Alex Sheshunoff gathered the one hundred books he was most embarrassed not to have read and moved to a small island in the Pacific called Yap. While out there, he'd meet a girl, build a house, and, of course, write his own book about the experience, a vaguely-humorous memoir with a very long title about the experience: A Beginner's Guide to Paradise: 9 Steps to Giving Up Everything So You Too Can: Move to the South Pacific, Wear a Loincloth, Read a Hundred Books, Diaper a Baby Monkey, Build a Bungalow and Maybe, Just Maybe, Fall in Love! (Individual results may vary.) Miraculously, Penguin Random House will release in hardcover on Sept. 1st, 2015.Alex's other writing has appeared in National Geographic Adventure, Slate.com, Marketplace, The Anchorage Daily News and other very prestigious media outlets. Before deciding to call himself a writer, Alex snuck through Yale and started and ran an Internet company in New York called E-The People - a nonpartisan precursor to Moveon.org but with a pun in its name.Because of his unique last name, Alex is often asked if he's somehow related to Ian Shenanigan Sheshunoff, the first-place winner of the Diaper Derby Crawling Contest at the 2008 Alaska State Fair. They are indeed related. Ian is his son. Today, Alex and his wife, Sarah, live in Ojai, California with Ian and his equally talented younger brother, Andrew Commissioner Sheshunoff.