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Today, I would like to recommend The Man on Mal's Right by Joe G.

I just finished listening to this and it was an amazing story.

G, the young man, actually boy, really, he's raised, obviously born, race in China.

And his father is a well-known lawyer, but he's a communist.

And everything's going fine for a while, and he and his brother are pretty much little princelains in the area that they live in.

But it's the 1930s, and the Japanese forces are getting closer and closer to where they live.

So they keep moving in the West, but the Japanese still keep coming.

And then finally, Joe and I, the man who ends up becoming the number two man in the communist party, says,

why don't you take your family and go to America?

Get them to learn English, get them to learn the ways of the West, and we could probably use them 20, 25 years from now.

I mean, this is how they thought it was pretty amazing stuff.

So he goes to America, and he picks up the language, and he falls in love with the country, and the country falls in love with him.

Especially, you know, the ice cream, he loves the ice cream there.

And everything's going along fine, he goes to Harvard, he gets his degree, he's enjoying life, everything's great.

But then when the Korean War comes in the early 1950s, he feels the pull of his original country.

And so he goes back to China to help, and through a lot of different events, he ends up becoming the English interpreter from Mao Zedong for two decades.

And Joe and I, some of the other communist hierarchy.

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