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(0)Gish Jen
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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 excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Carnegie Wong's mother never approved of her son's marriage to an American, and when she arranges for a mainland Chinese nanny for Wong and Blondie's children, Blondie fears her mother-in-law had an ulterior motive--even from the grave.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
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 live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned "Surplus,"...
