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Size: 5x0x8; First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title

Size: 5x0x8; First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Boards edges slightly faded, otherwise an excellent copy. 1999 Hard Cover. 207 pp. "In eight wonderfully alive stories, the acclaimed author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on America--with sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking results. Life now is not what it was a generation ago, but is it any easier' A Chinese-American woman attempts to discipline her Chinese-Irish-American grandchild, only to come up against her daughter's state-of-the-art parenting. A grown man flees to China to escape his disapproving mother, "who called every day, lest he forget she was not speaking to him." A computer expert accidentally books himself into a welfare hotel. A bohemian art student turned young mother finds herself entrenched in PTA meetings and soccer games when her WASP husband opts out and takes off for the woods. A family takes its first comically disastrous steps toward joining a country club. The stories in Who's Irish' prove once again that Gish Jen is an essential writer for our time--a writer who moves and entertains us as she updates the American Dream.

First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Alfred A.

First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

New York: Knopf, 1999. First edition. First printing. Quarter burgundy cloth

New York: Knopf, 1999. First edition. First printing. Quarter burgundy cloth over gray paper-covered boards, with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on front jacket flap ($22.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 208 pages. A collection of eight stories exploring generational and cultural tensions within Chinese American families. Gish Jen (born 1955) is the author of "Typical American" and "Mona in the Promised Land" and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts; this was her first story collection after two novels.