April Sweet April - Volume Two: The Dice Are Always Loaded

This is the second volume of Shamley's epic five volume poetic novel, wherein the Chinese move to take over Hong Kong in April 1968. From the assassination of Martin Luther King that sparked riots in the streets of Chicago, to the playful dreams and gender-fencing in Hong Kong around envisioning the Statute of Liberty in a mini-skit, "I Lift My Lamp - I Lift My Skirt," there is the realization that Chairman Mao Tse-t'ung would cut out the heart of the novel's main character, Brad Hemming, a...