It's 1940 when Tolt Gross, an African-American law graduate, arrives in booming Shanghai from the provincial backwater of Seattle.
He has accepted a senior role managing the Asia operations of a US flour company, a position with responsibility and status rarely available to a Black man in America.
But the job comes with a humiliating precondition--he must report to a man who despises him.
Once in Shanghai, Chinese and Japanese friends of his from college introduce Tolt to the delights of Shangha.
Earnshaw Books Rumors from shanghai, paperback/amy sommers
