Cynthia Zhang's After the Dragons
This was a nice little novel about two young men in a slightly fantastic version of Beijing: one, a local, suffering from a terminal lung disease caused by pollution, who spends his time rescuing stray and injured dragons: and the other, a biracial (Chinese/Black) American in Beijing to do medical research, inspired by his grandmother, who recently died there of the same lung disease. Which maybe sounds depressing, but actually it’s weirdly hopeful? Like, the world sucks in many ways but if you can do even one thing to try and make it better… why not cuddle and rehabilitate lil dragons? Plus I thought their romance was super cute. My only complaint is that this novel is too short and I want more of it! A/A-.
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