Jen, Gish.
Summary: Unhappy with her own ethnic group, Mona Chang, a Chinese-American, decides to become a Jew. After all, if one has to live as a minority, choose the best. A witty look at ethnicity, multiculturalism and the melting pot. By the author of Typical American.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1996
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Summary: Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: "It was like having twins...She got to book the same church with the same pianist for both funerals and did think she should have gotten some sort of twofer from the crematorium." But two years later, it's time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Jen, Gish
Summary: An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America, from the always inventive and exciting author of The Love Wife and Who's Irish. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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Summary: Chinese-American Carnegie Wong and his WASPy wife Blondie have two adopted children of Asian descent, Lilly and Wendy. The girls are a handful, but they are nothing compared to Carnegie's mother. Mama Wong's dislike for Blondie is relentless--so much so that she introduces a Chinese woman named Lan to the household. When Lilly and Wendy begin to favor Lan over their white mother, Blondie clings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2004
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Summary: "In her first collection of stories since the acclaimed Who's Irish?, the beloved author of The Resisters refracts the fifty years since the opening of China through the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr. Nixon" in hell, Gish Jen embarks on an eleven-story journey through U.S.-Chinese relations, capturing not only the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Contents: Who's Irish? -- Birthmates -- The water faucet vision -- Duncan in China -- Just wait -- Chin -- In the American society -- House, house, home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENSummary: Featuring guest editor contributions by the author of "Less," the latest edition of the respected literary annual collects twenty top-selected short stories from the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022