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This is a story about the gifts that come with cultural exchange, the perils of refusing them, and what it's like to lose them. An African American businessman finds freedom and respect in a city where money rules over race. His cosmopolitan life in Shanghai includes nights on the town with his beloved friends from China and Japan. As nationalism and war draw ever closer, the group's public embrace of equality puts them in peril. By deftly shaping historical details, Amy Sommers has written a story for our precarious times. -Nancy Rawles, author of My Jim

"This is a story about the gifts that come with cultural exchange, the perils of refusing them, and what it's like to lose them. An African American businessman finds freedom and respect in a city where money rules over race. His cosmopolitan life in Shanghai includes nights on the town with his beloved friends from China and Japan. As nationalism and war draw ever closer, the group's public embrace of equality puts them in peril. By deftly shaping historical details, Amy Sommers has written a story for our precarious times."" —Nancy Rawles, author of My Jim"

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Amy Sommers is a Sinophile and lifelong history fan. As a fluent Mandarin-speaking China-focused lawyer, in 2004 she moved to Shanghai with her husband and two young sons. Living and working in Shanghai during a period of intense legal, economic and social change, she became intrigued by the city's pre-World War II incarnation, one that served as both a mecca and a refuge for people from all over the world to reinvent themselves. Her debut novel ""Rumors from Shanghai"" explores the delights of a reinvented life and the dilemma of whether to risk it to avert a society-wide tragedy.

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