Deborah Fallows has spent a lot of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin,

An impressive debut from a freshman independent self-publishing author.

Belief in portents, omens and systems of prognostication have kept dream imagery and its interpretation very much in the mainstream of Chinese popular culture.

'Any traveller who shudders at the prospect of deciphering Chinese should be armed with a copy of this book' The New Yorker