A science fiction book set in China, written in China and banned in China was too big of an invitation, so I decided that I needed to read Chan Koonchung’s The Fat Years. It has a fairly basic premise and a love story that dovetail together. Until the truly atrocious ending, I considered it a lighter version of 1Q84. But, unfortunately the ending is so bad that it just destroy’s the book. So, let’s see what went wrong.