Explaining the Fujian Conundrum

Over the holiday weekend, in addition to bidding farewell to our dead-tree labor o' love, we found a few spare moments to start reading The Snakehead, the new book from Chatter author Patrick Radden Keefe. We're only 50 pages in, but so far this tome gets Microkhan's equivalent of an Ebert-ian "thumbs way up" rave. Just an endlessly compelling account of the Golden Venture disaster, in which hundreds of Chinese immigrants washed ashore in Queens after their freighter ran aground.

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