The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe (Paperback) MPS selected by PBS’s The Great

selected by PBS’s The Great American Read

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass

” —Time

a novelist

But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe (Paperback) MPS selected by PBS’s The GreatIn this thrilling panorama of real life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New Yorks Chinatown managed a multi million dollar business smuggling people. Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that its all true. Time Keefe