Currently living in Trento, Italy, and working on a second novel. First novel, Baby Jesus Pawn Shop, was published in November 2008 by The Permanent Press.
June 3, 2009, Trento, Italy I’d been living in Beijing for almost six months on the fifth anniversary of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square Massacre.Our area of Beijing, between People’s University and Peking University (referred to as Ren-da and Bei-da, their Chinese names), had become tense and restrictive in the weeks and days before the anniversary. Then one morning in early May, after ...
