Kangaroo Mama & the Boy Scout

An Excerpt From The China Chapter Of Kangaroo Mama The Boy Scout Tom And I Have Never Compared Notes On Exactly What Thoughts Were Coursing Through Our Individual Heads During Our Anxiety Filled Night In Chengdu But I Remember Quite Clearly That I Was Convinced That Any Second The Local Vice Squad Was Going To Come Storming Through The Door Of Our Hotel Room And Mete Out The Chinese Government S Standard Punishment Whenever Two Men Were Identified As Being Homosexual Chain Them To A Ramshackle Pagoda On The Outskirts Of Some Small Village In A Distant Province Slather Their Bodies With Fresh Goat Blood And Send In A Pack Of Freakishly Skinny Half Starved Dogs To Have Their Way With The Errant Ho Hos