Joss and Gold - by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (Paperback)

About the Book

Shirley Lim's award-winning novel tells a modern "Madame Butterfly" story with humor and grace.

Book Synopsis

Shirley Lim's award-winning novel tells a modern "Madame Butterfly" story with humor and grace.

Review Quotes

"How to deal with what the white man has left behind? For Shirley Geok-lin Lim, this is a question not only about geopolitics but also about gender politics. . . . This elegantly crafted tale places Lim among the most imaginative and dexterous storytellers writing in the English language today."
-Rey Chow, author of Primitive Passions

"This felicitous novel is several books in one-Madame Butterfly transplanted to Malaysia, a feminist manifesto, and a commentary on the new Southeast Asia that has been emerging in recent years. Lim has woven these strands together in a colorful batik that is dazzling."
-Hisaye Yamamoto, author of Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

"A gripping novel centered around a strong, language-struck, culture-crossing Asian woman's quest for independence. . . . A daring, sensuous, and pungent first novel."
-Rob Wilson, author of Reimagining the American Pacific

"Lim's rich, earthy writing combines the nuance of a poet with the ear of a born storyteller. Joss and Gold is compelling, provocative, and fascinating."
-Julia Watson, coeditor of Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader

About the Author

Shirley Geok-lin Lim is the author of Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian American Memoir of Homelands, winner of an American Book Award, as well as Two Dreams: New and Selected Stories, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, and several other books. She is a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.