Chasing Hepburn, by Gus Lee

[maribou]

This is the nonfiction story of his parents' lives, which is incidentally a compelling way to discuss the politics, aristocracy, underworld, religious practices, etc. of Shanghai in the first half of the last century. If his novels are anywhere near this good, I shall have to read them soon.

(29/200)

Comments

[maribou]

Well, obviously, I would recommend that you start:). I think it took me a while to get into because I had to read it in little bits and I kept getting confused by the alternating viewpoint. But I suspect if you read it in more than 10 page chunks for the first 100 pages or so, this problem would be avoided. Or maybe you wouldn't be that ditzy about names in the first place.