From the highly praised author of Mona in the Promised Land and Who’s Irish?–a generous, funny, explosive novel about the new “half-half” American family.Here is Carnegie Wong, second-generation Chinese America...

The time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica, a country surveilled by one “Aunt Nettie,” a Big Brother that is part artificial intelligence, part internet, and oddly human—even funny. The people:...

Hattie Kong, a retired teacher and a descendant of Confucius, has decided that it’s time to start over. She moves to the peaceful New England town of Riverlake, a place that once represented the rock-solid base of American life....

In this ebullient and inventive novel, Gish Jen restores multiculturalism from high concept to a fact of life. At least that's what it becomes for teenaged Mona Chang, who in 1968 moves with her newly prosperous family to Scarshill, N...

As East and West become more and more entwined, we also continue to baffle one another. What's more important—self-sacrifice or self-definition? Do we ultimately answer to something larger than ourselves—a family, a religion, a tr...

From the beloved author of Mona in the Promised Land and The Love Wife comes this comic masterpiece, an insightful novel of immigrants experiencing the triumphs and trials of American life. Gish Jen reinvents the American immigrant s...

Sparkling--a gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it.'--The New York TimesWith dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen--author of the highly acclaimed novels Typical American and Mona in the Prom...