Typical American
This wonderful, bittersweet novel of misadventure and creeping assimilation begins in 1947, when the Shanghai-based Changs send young Ralph halfway around the world to study in New York. He sets off with two goals in mind--to master engineering and to avoid girls at any cost.
This wonderful, bittersweet novel of misadventure and creeping assimilation begins in 1947, when the Shanghai-based Changs send young Ralph halfway around the world to study in New York. He sets off with two goals in mind--to master engineering and to avoid girls at any cost.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780452267749 (0452267749)
Publish date: March 1st 1992
Publisher: Plume
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Culture,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
China
Gish Jen's Typical American surveys a broad range of immigrant Chinese American experience, and is populated by round, psychologically complex characters interacting in believable and striking ways. Jen's flaw as an author might only be a flaw of the Chinese American community itself, a tendency to ...
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