Gish Jen

• Mar-1991
• / General Fiction
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Lai Fu has come to America to study to be an engineer and then return to China. But soon his name is RaIph Chang, and he has been joined by his ambitious sister Theresa. She in turn finds him a perfect wife in beautiful and docile Helen. Together the...

• May-1996
• / General Fiction
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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 American teenager doing her best to fit in�"even if it means conve...

• May-1999
• / General Fiction
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In this winning collection of short stories by the author of the highly acclaimed novels Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land, the children of immigrants look wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate even as they realize the exte...

• Sep-2004
• / General Fiction
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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 ambitious and emotionally ample work yet” (The New York Times). The Wong...

• Oct-2010
• / Literary
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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 w...

• Feb-2020
• / Dystopian
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The time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica. The land: half under water. The Internet: one part artificial intelligence, one part surveillance technology, and oddly human--even funny. The people: Divided. The angel-fair "Netted" ha...

• Sep-2021
• / Science Fiction
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It's a story you may think you know - an aging baseball coach is challenged by the very boy he took in and raised. But in this near future world, smart” houses talk and listen, and - privy as they are to the secret life of the household - famil...

• Jan-2022
• / General Fiction
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The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write -- a story collection accruing ...