Mona in the Promised Land - Paperback
by Gish Jen
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gish JenSeries:Vintage ContemporariesPublish date:1997-04-01Pages:320
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679776505ISBN-10:679776508UPC:9780679776505Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Cultural Heritage, Asian AmericanSize:8.12 x 5.26 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCXH1VZK48
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 converting to Judaism. In these pages, acclaimed author Gish Jen introduces us to teenaged Mona Chang, who in 1968 moves with her newly prosperous family to Scarshill, New York. Here, the Chinese are seen as "the new Jews." What could be more natural than for Mona to take this literally--even to the point of converting? As Mona attends temple "rap" sessions and falls in love (with a nice Jewish boy who lives in a tepee), Jen introduces us to one of the most charming and sweet-spirited heroines in recent fiction, a girl who can wisecrack with perfect aplomb even when she's organizing the help in her father's pancake house. On every page, Gish Jen sets our received notions spinning with a wit as dry as a latter-day Jane Austen's.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679776505ISBN-10:679776508UPC:9780679776505Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Cultural Heritage, Asian AmericanSize:8.12 x 5.26 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCXH1VZK48
GISH JEN is the author of four novels, a book of stories, and two books of nonfiction, The Girl at the Baggage Claim and Tiger Writing. Her honors include the Lannan Literary Award for fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She teaches from time to time in China and otherwise lives with her husband and two children in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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