ABOUT
THE BOOK

Shanghai Baby is the story of a young, urban woman, Coco, who waits tables by day and explores Shanghai’s intoxicating underbelly by night. While trying desperately to write a novel so that she might ‘burst upon the city like fireworks’, Coco falls in love with an impotent and drug-addicted Chinese artist, but also begins a wistful affair with a rich, married Western businessman with a penchant for seduction.