The Shanghai Moon, a fabulous brooch, the MacGuffin all seek, and have sought since WWII, when 20,000 Jews were allowed to emigrate to Shanghai (when America and et al turned their backs on the Jews). The brooch was a made piece of jewelry that was formed to honor the union between the lovely Rosalie and this abandoning Maoist jerk. But there was no Shanghai Moon in the denouement.
Like the thing that dreams are made of there is no jeweled bird, no symbol of the union between two cultures.
I hate that, as a reader, as a writer. It feels a cheat. Only in cheap romance novels are much much desired baubles found and described in rapturous florid prose.
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
The dingus is found in Snaketown.
ETA: Ok, I was wrong.
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