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The Love Wifeby Gish JenISBN 140007651X (1-4000-7651-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Love Wife'Book summary:A story of the conflicts of society and relationships by this prominent Chinese-American author [via]
Mona in Promised Landby Gish JenISBN 0517198363 (0-517-19836-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Mona in the Promised Landby Gish JenISBN 1862070539 (1-86207-053-9)
Softcover, Granta Books
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- Mona in the Promised Land: ISBN 1862070342 (1-86207-034-2)
Softcover, Granta Books - Mona in the Promised Land: ISBN 0679776508 (0-679-77650-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Mona in the Promised Land: ISBN 0679445897 (0-679-44589-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Mona in the Promised Land: ISBN 1862070539 (1-86207-053-9)
Softcover, Granta Books
- Mona in the Promised Land: ISBN 1862070342 (1-86207-034-2)
Nimrod Awards XIV: Making Languageby Gish JenISBN 0933031734 (0-933031-73-4)
Softcover, Council Oak Books
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Ploughshares Fall 2000by Gish JenISBN 0933277296 (0-933277-29-6)
Softcover, Ploughshares Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ploughshares Fall 2000'Book summary:Contributors to this issue include: Ann Beattie, Moira Crone, Peter Ho Davies, Tom Drury, Carol Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Graver, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Bill Marx, Garry Mitchell, Sabina Murray, Pamela Painter, Jess Row, Esmeralda Santiago, Lysley A. Tenorio, Mark Winegardner [via]
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Typical Americanby Gish JenISBN 186207111X (1-86207-111-X)
Softcover, Granta Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Typical American'Book summary: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 reinvents the American immigrant story through the Chang family, who first come to the United States with no intention of staying. When the Communists assume control of China in 1949, though, Ralph Chang, his sister Theresa, and his wife Helen, find themselves in a crisis. At first, they cling to their old-world ideas of themselves. But as they begin to dream the American dream of self-invention, they move poignantly and ironically from people who disparage all that is typical American to people who might be seen as typically American themselves. With droll humor and a deep empathy for her characters, Gish Jen creates here a superbly engrossing story that resonates with wit and wisdom even as it challenges the reader to reconsider what a typical American might be today. [via]More editions of Typical American:
- Typical American: ISBN 1417769130 (1-4177-6913-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Typical American: ISBN 0307389227 (0-307-38922-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books - Typical American: ISBN 0452267749 (0-452-26774-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Typical American: ISBN 0395546893 (0-395-54689-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Typical American: ISBN 186207111X (1-86207-111-X)
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- Typical American: ISBN 1417769130 (1-4177-6913-0)
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Who's Irish? : Storiesby Gish JenISBN 1862072760 (1-86207-276-0)
Softcover, Granta Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who's Irish? : Stories'Book summary:Nobody writes about the immigrant experience like Gish Jen. What sets her apart from other ethnic writers is the wide-angle lens she turns not only on her own Chinese American ethnic group, but on Jewish Americans, African Americans, Irish Americans, and just about any other hyphenate you'd care to name. Though her tales are filtered through an Asian experience, they are, at heart, the quintessential American story of immigration, assimilation, and occasional tensions with other ethnic communities. The title story, for example, is a neat variation on a time-worn theme: mothers and daughters. The narrator is an elderly Chinese woman whose thoroughly assimilated daughter, Natalie, has married into an Irish American family. Natalie is successful; her husband, John, is not. Natalie's mother comments early on:
I always thought Irish people are like Chinese people, work so hard on the railroad, but now I know why the Chinese beat the Irish. Of course, not all Irish are like the Shea family, of course not. My daughter tell me I should not say Irish this, Irish that.
The narrator has other thoughts on the Irish question as well, including the connection between national diet and world view: "Plain boiled food, plain boiled thinking," she says of John, then adds that "because I grew up with black bean sauce and hoisin sauce and garlic sauce, I always feel something is missing when my son-in-law talk." But it soon becomes apparent that the problems between the narrator and her daughter's family are less cultural than generational, and in the end the mother forms a surprising alliance.Jen comes at the question of identity from another angle in "Duncan in China," in which a second-generation Chinese American man returns to Mainland China to teach English. Here she manages to delicately suggest the enormity of the differences between the very American Duncan and his Chinese students, coworkers, and relatives. And in "Birthmates" she places her computer programmer protagonist, Art Woo, in close proximity to the low-income, mostly black residents of a welfare hotel that he's accidentally checked into. Class, race, gender, and job security all figure into this brilliant, subtle story that looks at the dark side of the American dream and finds that failure comes in all colors. These eight stories are sharply written, filled with humor, pathos, and more than a few surprising twists and turns. Quite simply, Who's Irish? is a delight. --Alix Wilber [via]
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