The Love Wife

Name: The Love Wife
Author: Gish Jen

by Gish Jen

Novel about a marriage tested by intercultural tensions and household conflict

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Gish Jen

American novelist of Chinese descent whose Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land brought Chinese-American assimilation comedy to a wide audience. Her fiction explores the complexities of the immigrant dream with wit and compassion. She is an important figure in Chinese-American literature.

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