New York is the perch from which author Xu Xi examines the shifting balance of power between China and the US, set against a tale of lifelong friendships between Gordon Ashberry and his two best friends, Harold Haight and Larry Woo. Gordon is fifty-five and decides to disappear during a flight delay in Tokyo. The fallout around that disappearance informs this novel about the friend who has always been in your life until he isn't, and how much or little we know of those we think we know well. Inspired by John Adams' opera "Nixon in China." From $9.99 SHOP NOW /
