From the beloved author of Mona in the Promised Land and The Love Wife comes this comic masterpiece, an insightful novel of immigrants experiencing the triumphs and trials of American life. Gish Jen
From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a "half half" family, but the ac
A provocative and important study of the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about the self and society and what this means for current debates in art, education, geopolitics, and business.
From the much-loved author of Who's Irish? and The Love Wife, a world-sized novel set in a small New England town.Hattie Kong---the spirited offspring of a descendant of Confucius and an American mis
From the beloved author of Mona in the Promised Land and The Love Wife comes this comic masterpiece, an insightful novel of immigrants experiencing the triumphs and trials of American life. Gish Jen r
Hattie Kong, a retired teacher and a descendant of Confucius, has decided that it’s time to start over. She moves to the peaceful New England town of Riverlake, a place that once represented
"Sparkling--a gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it."--The New York TimesWith dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen--author of the highly acclaimed novels Ty
As East and West become more and more entwined, we also continue to baffle one another. What’s more important—self-sacrifice or self-definition? Do we ultimately answer to something larger
In this ebullient and inventive novel, Gish Jen restores multiculturalism from high concept to a fact of life. At least that's what it becomes for teenaged Mona Chang, who in 1968 moves with her newly
From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a “half half” family, but the ac
For author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumb
Two years after burying her husband and best friend, sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town where she is joined by a Cambodian family and reunited with an ex-lover before t
Two years after burying her husband and best friend, sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town where she is joined by a Cambodian family and reunited with an ex-lover before t
