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Who's Irish?: Stories Hardcover - 1999

by Gish Jen (Editor)


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In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on America--with sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking results.
Life now is not what it was a generation ago, but is it any easier? A Chinese-American woman attempts to discipline her Chinese-Irish-American grandchild, only to come up against her daughter's state-of-the-art parenting. A grown man flees to China to escape his disapproving mother, " who called every day, lest he forget she was not speaking to him." A computer expert accidentally books himself into a welfare hotel. A bohemian art student turned young mother finds herself entrenched in PTA meetings and soccer games when her WASP husband opts out and takes off for the woods. A family takes its first comically disastrous steps toward joining a country club. The stories in Who's Irish? prove once again that Gish Jen is an essential writer for our time--a writer who moves and entertains us as she updates the American Dream.

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  • Title Who's Irish?: Stories
  • Author Gish Jen (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 207
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, New York
  • Date 1999
  • ISBN 9780375406218 / 0375406212
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.67 x 5.95 x 0.98 in (22.02 x 15.11 x 2.49 cm)
  • Reading level 840
  • Library of Congress subjects Chinese Americans, United States - Social life and customs -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-42801
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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