Jennifer Ann Ho introduces readers to a “typical American” writer, Gish Jen, the author of four novels, Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Lov

"The Resisters is palpably loving, smart, funny, and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and

This “irresistible novel” of Chinese immigrants navigating the American dream is “startling [and] heartrending, without ever losing its comic touch” (En

Traces the evolution of Jen's career, her themes, and the development of her narrative voice.

In three pieces originally delivered as special lectures, draws on the biography of the author's father as well as the evolution of her own work to contrast Wes