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Gish Jen
(b.1955)Gish Jen is the author of the novels Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife and Who's Irish, a book of stories. Her honors include the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives with her husband and two children in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Genres: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
Novels
Typical American (1991)
Mona in the Promised Land (1996)
The Love Wife (2004)
World and Town (2010)
The Resisters (2020)
Mona in the Promised Land (1996)
The Love Wife (2004)
World and Town (2010)
The Resisters (2020)
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Gish Jen recommends
Leaving (2024)
Roxana Robinson
"If to the combustible elements of passion, honor, love, and art, you add the complexities of modern parenting, you get the conflagration that is Leaving. Compelling, heart-stopping, and all too believable, this is a marvelous read."
The Leftover Woman (2023)
Jean Kwok
"What a page-turner! The Leftover Woman asks aching questions about family and love even as it hop-scotches across cultures and classes, bringing both tragedy and hope. A marvelous read."
What Strange Paradise (2021)
Omar El Akkad
"It is one thing to put a human face on a migrant crisis and another to do so in so compelling a way that a reader simply cannot put your book down. I read this in one sitting, my heart pounding the whole way—in a strange paradise, you might say. Marvelous."
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