Reader recommendation: Night in Shanghai

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I just finished Night in Shanghai by Nicole Mones. She shows the jazz-filled, complex, turbulent world of Shanghai just before world War II. This thrilling, sexy, novel reveals some little-known facts from that time. The strands of the story weave together as the themes and rhythms of the jazz her protagonist plays.

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