Puerto Vallarta On 49 Brain Cells A Day is an extraordinarily funny book, which somehow goes beyond humor, leaving the reader entertained, enlightened and literally choking with laughter all at once.
It is not exactly a travel book, but these hilarious true stories do lead us on a merry romp, as we witness firsthand an American expat’s confusing first years living, working and travelling in Mexico.
We follow the author and his wise-cracking wife as they stumble through a series of surreal, typically Mexican misadventures. Whether Mr. Gevins is unknowingly telling a waiter in his beginner’s mangled Spanish that he “…chooses to urinate right here, at this table!â€; or is mistakenly asking a twelve year-old girl at her birthday party, “So tell me, señorita, how many anuses do you have…â€, many readers have declared that this is one of the funniest books they have ever read.
The author, who upon his arrival in Puerto Vallarta, quickly developed a fondness for “Raicilla†(the local moonshine), is continually getting himself into one bizarre alcohol-induced predicament after another: buying a five foot-long iguana at the beach and then attempting to drive it home in his Volkswagen Bug; setting his boss on fire trying to light a barbecue with the afore-mentioned moonshine; falling into a pig sty at a rural wedding. 
 The list of mishaps goes on and on, as does the laughter. Oddly enough, this entertaining well-written book of stories is also highly instructive, giving the reader a comprehensive view (albeit through a distorted lens) of what life is actually like for an American living in Mexico.
