Description
I think love is when you think you need someone
for your survival. Survival, defined broadly.
The way you think, sometimes . . .
The way I think, what?
It . . . surprises me. Yoko, we need each other. Family - family
is all we have.
''Smart, tender, and lyrical-SHANGHAILANDERS is a moving debut novel, and one that never stops surprising the reader . . . This is the kind of book I wish I''d read when I first was learning to write.'' Jiaming Tang
While the years rewind from 2040 back to 2014, Shanghailanders brings readers into the shared and separate lives of the Yang family, parent by parent, daughter by daughter, and through the eyes of the people in their orbit-a nanny from the provinces, a private driver with a penchant for danger, and a grandmother whose memories of the past echo the present. As they build their lives in this old, futuristic city, we see Leo, his wife Eko and t
