Typical American
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307389220 (0307389227)
Publish date: January 8th 2008
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 304
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 ...