Abstract:
Written after two years of living in China, BLACK CLASS CUR is set in that country on the eve of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. The main characters are a former Red Guard and his younger brother who gets fatally involved in the student demonstrations. They come up against an American "foreign expert” whose preoccupation is locating a baby to adopt, with or without the help of a gang of third-world medical students. BLACK CLASS CUR was nominated for the Editor’s Book Award. "...a narrative that begins with controlled wildness and a touch of the absurd, and escalates from there.” Find out about Tom Bradley’s novels at http://literati.net/Bradley