A Chinese Eleanor Rigby (‘The Shanghai Friendship Store’ — Chapter 1, Part 2)
The following excerpt (Part 2) is from the novel The Shanghai Friendship Store* by Susan Ruel and is a continuation of the previous article (Chapter 1). The novel chronicles the experiences of a small foreign community living in Shanghai in the 1980s (the heyday of Friendship Stores). Nowadays, only a few of these stores remain open, ...
