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Liu's eponymous "glorious boy" exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing power of indigenous plants, and the American Claire, a would-be anthropologist without an official degree—arrive in 1936 in the remote Andaman Islands in India's Bay of Bengal. Ty is born into their near-idyllic paradise, colonial as it...Log In or Sign Up to Read More