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9780593689653: Bad Bad Girl: A Novel
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ISBN 10: 0593689658 ISBN 13: 9780593689653
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2026

Sinopsis

L.A. TIMES 15 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - TIME "100 BEST" - RUPAUL'S BOOK CLUB PICK - An engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.

"A transcendent work of art." --Boston Globe

"Gish Jen has written the multigenerational mother-daughter epic of our new century." --Junot Díaz

"Heart-piercingly personal. . . . Suffused with love." --Los Angeles Times

My mother had died, but still I heard her voice. . .

Gish's mother, Loo Shu-hsin, is born in 1924 to a wealthy Shanghai family whose girls are expected to restrain themselves. Her beloved nursemaid--far closer to her than her real mother--is torn from her even as she is constantly reprimanded: "Bad bad girl! You don't know how to talk!" Sent to a modern Catholic school by her progressive father, she receives not only an English name--Agnes--but a first-rate education. To his delight, she excels. But proud as he is, he can only sigh, "Too bad. If you were a boy, you could accomplish a lot." Agnes finds solace in books and in 1947 announces her intention to pursue a PhD in America. As the Communist revolution looms, she sets sail--never to return.

Lonely and adrift in New York, she begins dating Jen Chao-pe, an engineering student. They do their best to block out the increasingly dire plight of their families back home and successfully establish a new American life: Marriage! A house in the suburbs! A number one son! By the time Gish is born, though, the news from China is proving inescapable; their marriage is foundering; and Agnes, confronted with a strong-willed, outspoken daughter distinctly reminiscent of herself, is repeating the refrain--"Bad bad girl!"--as she recapitulates the harshness of her own childhood.

Spanning continents, generations, and cultures, Bad Bad Girl is a novel only Gish Jen could have written: genre-bending, courageous, wise, and as incisive as it is compassionate.

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Acerca del autor

GISH JEN is the author of five novels, two books of stories, and two works of nonfiction. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fulbright Foundation, as well as the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her stories have been chosen for The Best American Short Stories five times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century; she has also delivered the William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in American Studies at Harvard University. She and her husband split their time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Vermont.

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Editorial
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Año de publicación
2026
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0593689658
ISBN 13 
9780593689653
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
353
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