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Who's Irish?
Stories
by Gish Jen
ISBN: 0375705929
ISBN-13: 9780375705922
Format: Paperback
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Summary
A collection of stories about Chinese-Americans, including ''House, House, Home,'' a novella-length story about the marriage of a Chinese woman and a Scandinavian man and its perhaps inevitable breakup. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999.
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"Like her characters, Ms. Jen has a keen eye for the incongruities of contemporary life, and in this beautifully articulated new collection of stories, she gives us a gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it." -- Michiko Kakutani
-- New York Times
"Jen's gift is for comedy that resonates, and sadnesses that arise with perfect timing from absurdities. Her subject matter is so appealing, it almost obscures the power and suppleness of her language." -- Jean Thompson
-- New York Times Book Review
"...Jen's spry comedy comes from being able to look at Chinese and American cultures with both an outsider's and an insider's eye....Jen's fictions are reliably intelligent, funny, lively and true; they are not, however, always well shaped, and she does not seem altogether comfortable with the short-story form." -- Sylvia Brownrigg
-- Times Literary Supplement
"Jen's plots are so brazenly unlikely that occasionally one can't help wondering whether she isn't sending up the ideal of racial harmony, which seems to be the underlying theme-message, even-in all of them. But no one who wasn't sincere could have concocted the embarrassing last paragraphs of 'House, House, Home'." -- Gabriele Annan
-- London Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2000
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Pages: 207
Publisher's Notes
A first anthology of short stories by the author of Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land captures the lives and fortunes of Chinese Americans as they make their way through American society.
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