Tracing It Home Condition:Well Read and those of their friends

and those of their friends and lovers

his technical skill and thematic scope

turtles and hummingbirds

Andy can’t shake the past

An exquisitely told tale of love

Tracing It Home Condition:Well Read and those of their friendsIn the tradition of Wild Swans and Life and Death in Shanghai, Lynn Pan's Tracing It Home weaves a captivating tale of a family caught up in the turmoil of twentieth century China. Set in motion by the death of the author's mother, the narrative chronicles the unraveling of an intricate puzzle of familial relationships spanning three generations and two continents. Here is Shanghai in the forties and fifties a universe of drug addiction, anarchy,