BORN IN 1955, raised by Chinese immigrant parents in the predominantly Jewish suburb of Scarsdale, New York, Gish Jen started writing poetry in seventh grade. By high school, she’d become literary editor of her school magazine — and after fellow members of the creative writing club nicknamed her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-07-08 17:00:10 UTC ]
This week, Karen Thompson Walker reviews Gish Jen’s new novel, “The Resisters.” In 1999, Jean Thompson wrote for the Book Review about “Who’s Irish?,” Jen’s collection of short stories about the ambitions and compromises of immigrants and their children. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-21 10:00:05 UTC ]
'The Resisters,' Gish Jen's first novel in nine years, imagines a class-based dystopian United States. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-06 15:00:56 UTC ]