In the summer he arrives in Wuhan, the heart of China on the Yangtze River. This "shocking," "disturbing," and "Kafkaesque" real-life thriller pulls no punches in painting a complex portrait of contemporary China. The riveting true story of the transformation of a Chinese city and an American who finds himself stranded there.Ī detailed chronicle of everyday life in modern China, a window into the lives of Chinese peasants and the foreigners with whom they fall in and out of romance, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Chaos and Grime: A Year in the Life of a Chinese City takes you where no memoir has dared to go before now. "An evocative portrait of a troubled soul in a bewildering land."
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