It is 1968, the dawn of ethnicity, and though some nice Chinese girls are turning more Chinese, teenaged Mona Chan is turning Jewish, much to her parents' chagrin.
Jen's first novel is about a Chinese immigrant family, the Changs, their struggle to make it in a new world, and their exploitation by a slick con artist.
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.
Carnegie Wong is Chinese-American, and his wife Blondie comes from a WASP-y old Yankee family. When Lan, a distant Wong relative, arrives from China to become their children's nanny, the tensions in the family increase, and Blondie suspects the girl may have been dispatched by Carnegie's mother to break up a relationship she never sanctioned. This ...
Dickens's heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man's rise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. David Copperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age and raised first by his brutal stepfather (who halts his schooling and sends him to work in a factory--as did Dickens's own father), then by a kindly aunt. He trains for ...
Jen's first novel is about a Chinese immigrant family, the Changs, their struggle to make it in a new world, and their exploitation by a slick con artist.
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