Thursday, April 16, 2015

The Interior / Lisa See / 391 pages

     This is book 2 of a trilogy about the Chinese police Liu Hulan and her American lawyer boyfriend David.  In this one, she investigates a factory to solve a murder and discovers the world of unsafe working conditions and illegal business practices.  David is caught up in representing an American corporation buying another business with the manufacturing in China.  There is so much corruption and illegal dealings in the name of "good old American capitalism" that it is difficult to come away from this book without new awareness of the problems and how the problem is global.  What to do in response is the difficult part.  How to be responsible for purchases so that safer, fairer working conditions can arise while knowing that it is occurring many other places besides China.

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