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BUY NOW No paraphrase could capture the intelligence of Gish Jen’s prose, its epigrammatic sweep and swiftness . . . The author just keeps coming at you line after stunning line. — A. G. Mojtabai,...
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BUY NOW It is 1968, the dawn of the age of ethnicity: African Americans are turning Chinese, Jews are turning black, and though some nice Chinese girls are turning more Chinese, teenaged Mona Chang is...
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BUY NOW With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen—author of the highly acclaimed novels Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land—looks at ambition and compromise at century’s end and finds that...
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BUY NOW The Wongs describe themselves as a “half half” family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegie’s Chinese heritage, his wife Blondie’s WASP background, and the various...
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BUY NOW Winner, 2011 Massachusetts Book PrizeNominee, International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardHattie Kong—the spirited offspring of a descendant of Confucius and an American missionary to China—has,...
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BUY NOW For author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsider’s Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading,...
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BUY NOW Press: WCVB • Chronicle • Profiles: Gish Jen WGBH • Greater Boston • Cambridge Author Gish Jen Discusses the East-West Culture Gap WBUR • In 'Girl At The Baggage Claim,' Exploring The Cultural...
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A 1984 for our times - Newsday Buy Now The time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica. The land: half under water. The Internet: one part artificial intelligence, one part surveillance...
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