![—The Seattle Times on <em>Dragon Day</em>](https://sohopress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/blog-00.png)
Excellent … Ellie McEnroe, our guide, is a piece of work: an expatriate American veteran of Iraq with a bad leg and a worse attitude … Brackmann is terrific at evoking both the glitz of modern high-society China and Ellie’s hand-to-mouth existence in some of Beijing’s less reputable corners.