“Dancing in Beijing” Review of “Forbidden Fruit” LA Review of Books

“Forbidden Fruit—1980 Beijing” reviewed by Lisa Brackmann in LA Review of Books on July 5, 2016:
“…Forbidden Fruit captures a specific, peculiar moment in time and place, what it was like to be a foreigner in Beijing at the beginning of Deng’s reform era, as well or better than any book I’ve read. Forbidden Fruit reminded me, too, that in spite of the obstacles, it was possible at times to connect.”