Thank You, Mr. Nixon

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Thank You, Mr. Nixon

Thank You, Mr. Nixon

Name: Thank You, Mr. Nixon
ISBN: 9780593319901

Gish Jen

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The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write—a story collection accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds—a work that Cynthia Ozick has called “an art beyond art. It is life itself.”
Beginning with a cheery letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to “poor Mr. Nixon” in hell, Gish Jen embarks on a fictional journey through U.S.-China relations, capturing the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change.

Opal Chen reunites with her Chinese sisters after forty years; newly cosmopolitan Lulu Koo wonders why Americans “like to walk around in the woods with the mosquitoes”; Hong Kong parents go to extreme lengths to reestablish contact with their “number-one daughter” in New York; and Betty Koo, brought...

Categories:

Fiction - Short Stories

Year:

2022

Publisher:

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Language:

english

ISBN 10:

0593319907

ISBN 13:

9780593319901