The Unfilial Michael Swan and even the grave of

and even the grave of the Kentucky Colonel

Edward Thomas

as well as being an important Venetian port and a centre for the slave trade

” — Other Poetry

Al is haunted by his brother Will’s perfect new family and seeks in dangerous new friends what he needs from his lost kin

The Unfilial Michael Swan and even the grave ofModern China moves fast, leaving its people trailing behind. The mirage of a picture perfect home compels some to gamble away the family house, while others live with debts of a shameful past. When something inevitably cracks, its always the women who are left to pick up the pieces. In four stories, Yao Emei shines a brutally honest light on the crumbling foundations of the family unit with scalpel sharp precision. As her characters struggle to escape