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Mona in the Promised Land (Reprint) (Paperback)
- Author: Gish Jen
- Publisher: Vintage Books
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In 1968, the Chang family has moved to Scarshill, New York. In addition to the lavish surroundings, there is further culture shock in the form of radical ideas and ethnic consciousness. Mona Chang, a teenager, joins a temple group bent on reforming race relations, and with them builds a mansion hideout, an underground railroad and a utopian camp called Gugelstein. Her infatuation with her newfound friends turns troublesome, and by the end of the novel certain truths about contemporary America have surfaced which even Mona cannot deny.
Features
- Genre: Fiction & Literature Genres, Juvenile Fiction
- Subgenre: Conflicts & Dualities, Types of Characters, Politics, Human Qualities & Behavior, Humorous Fiction, People & Places / United States / Asian American, Literary Genres & Types of Novels, Society & Social Issues, Stages of Life, Family & Friendship
- Date Published: April 01, 1997
- Release Date: April 01, 1997
- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Author: Gish Jen
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
Additional Information
- DPCI: 248-02-2824
- ASIN: B002JJ025I
- Catalog #: 11405076
- ISBN: 9780679776505
- Item can be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 8 inches length x 5 inches width x 0.75 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.60 pound.
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Reviewer: Amy Tan
"Gish Jen bravely skewers what we THINK we mean by assimilation, cultural diversity and the uniquely American right to forge a new identity and then patent it. Not only that, now I finally know why Chinese mothers are like Jewish mothers."
Reviewer: Cynthia Ozick
"Gish Jen's funny, headlong, and completely delightful novel of high-achieving Chinese and Jewish suburbanites is indelibly American, and could unfold nowhere else. Nothing escapes Jen's affectionate spoofing--and at the same time, every issue is genuine and truth-bringing. A light-hearted novel of radiant charm and human warmth."
Reviewer: Richard Eder, (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
"Hemingway invented his rhythms to create his particular American world. Jen invents a percussive tempo, a series of brusquely energetic leaps and breaks that, without being anything but idiomatic, create an extended particular world where dim sum is as American as apple pie."
"In tracing the (guardedly triumphant) struggles of one young woman to be herself, borrowing from a variety of traditions without being constrained by any of them, Jen gives us an affecting story--precise, often very funny--and a wonderfully idiosyncratic heroine."
Reviewer: Anna Shapiro, (New Yorker)
"It's as if [Jen] were capturing the growth of emotional ties in stop-action photographs--as she might capture plants radiating into bloom--and were showing marriage, friendship, and family to be in need of all the patient inventiveness that goes into a work of art. Her fine attention to this kind of cultivation becomes unexpectedly moving as Mona progresses beyond the limits of her family toward a new one of her own making, within the fiendish complexity that is the world."
