Shanghai Passenger

by Lucy Brydon

Ruby, a young Scottish writer, moves to Shanghai to write her first novel. Picking up a new best friend and boyfriend pretty quickly, she thinks that her life couldn't be better. Until she finds herself inexorably drawn to Shanghai's seedy underbelly, that is. After loosing her job, there seems to be only one way to finance her escape from Shanghai... Shanghai Passenger weaves a retelling of the ancient story of Zhuangzi's Dream of the Butterfly with a coming-of-age story with satirical bite.

160 pages, Paperback

First published September 13, 2015

Reviews

[lena]

found it so weird but it has a special place in my heart, still think about years later

[Gretel]

Think of a more concise and more exciting version of Emma Jane Unsworth's Animals, except with expats in Shanghai.