Peking Man Is Missing
"Until now, the unresolved mystery of that redwood chest packed with priceless Peking Man fossils...has inspired only inconclusive, unsatisfying, nonfiction accounts. Fiction, however, can imagine away inconsistencies and embroider across gaps, and this serene, stately concoction keeps an eye on them bones for 25 years...The fascinating, quick sketches of Western life under Japanese mainland occupation provide exactly the right frame for an elegant puzzle where nothing's belabored and everything fits." --Kirkus