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.
She and her husband split their time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Vermont..
Massey, Sr., Lectures in American Studies at Harvard University.
Her Stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories four times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century ; she has also delivered the William E.
Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fulbright Foundation, as well as the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
About author(s): GISH JEN is the author of one previous book of stories, five novels, and two works of nonfiction.
Nixon furnishes yet more proof of Jen\'s enduring place among the most eminent of American storytellers.
Gradually accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds, Thank You, Mr.
With their profound compassion, equally profound humor, and unexpected connections, these masterly Stories reflect history\'s shifting shadow over our boldest decisions and most intimate moments.
Opal Chen reunites with her sisters in China after a hiatus of almost forty years
American Arnie Hsu clashes with his Chinese girlfriend, Lulu Koo, who wonders why Americans "like to walk around in the woods with the mosquitoes"
Tina and Johnson Koo take wholly surprising measures to reestablish contact when their "number one daughter," Bobby, stops answering her phone in New York; and Betty Koo, brought up on "no politics, just make money," finds she must square her mother\'s philosophy with the repression in Hong Kong.
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, but the all-too-human encounters that ensue as East meets West.
Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr.
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
