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The Love Wife
From the massively talented, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon comes "a big story ... about families and identity and race and the American Dream.... Jen's most …
Girl at the Baggage Claim
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, …
Mona in the Promised Land
A New York Times Notable BookIn these pages, acclaimed author Gish Jen portrays the day-to-day of American multiculturalism with poignancy and wit, introducing us to teenaged Mona …
Shakespeare and the Body Politic
Metaphors animate Shakespeare’s corpus, and one of the most prominent is the image of the body. Sketched out in the eternal lines of his plays and poetry, and often drawn in …
Mona in the Promised Land
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon comes a "hilariously funny and seriously important" novel (Amy Tan) about American multiculturalism and a Chinese …
Tiger Writing
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 …
David Copperfield
" Like so many fond parents I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child," wrote Charles Dickens. "And his name is David Copperfield." Of all of Dickens's …
World and Town
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 …
Who's Irish?
The stories in Who's Irish? show us the children of immigrants looking wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation asks how so much selfless …