{"product_id":"mona-in-the-promised-land-paperback","title":"Mona in the Promised Land - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGish Jen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThank You, Mr. Nixon\u003c\/i\u003e comes a \"hilariously funny and seriously important\" novel (Amy Tan) about American multiculturalism and a Chinese American teenager doing her best to fit in-even if it means converting to Judaism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these pages, acclaimed author Gish Jen introduces us to teenaged Mona Chang, who in 1968 moves with her newly prosperous family to Scarshill, New York. Here, the Chinese are seen as \"the new Jews.\" What could be more natural than for Mona to take this literally--even to the point of converting? As Mona attends temple \"rap\" sessions and falls in love (with a nice Jewish boy who lives in a tepee), Jen introduces us to one of the most charming and sweet-spirited heroines in recent fiction, a girl who can wisecrack with perfect aplomb even when she's organizing the help in her father's pancake house. On every page, Gish Jen sets our received notions spinning with a wit as dry as a latter-day Jane Austen's.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this ebullient and inventive novel, Gish Jen restores multiculturalism from high concept to a fact of life. At least that's what it becomes for teenaged Mona Chang, who in 1968 moves with her newly prosperous family to Scarshill, New York, where the Chinese have become \"the new Jews.\" What could be more natural than for Mona to take this literally--even to the point of converting? As Mona attends temple \"rap\" sessions and falls in love (with a nice Jewish boy who lives in a tepee), Jen introduces us to one of the most charming and sweet-spirited heroines in recent fiction, a girl who can wisecrack with perfect aplomb even when she's organizing the help in her father's pancake house. On every page of Mona in the Promised Land, Gish Jen sets our received notions spinning with a wit as dry as a latter-day Jane Austen's. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A shining example of a multicultural message delivered with the wit and bite of art...Gish Jen creates a particular world where dim sum is as American as apple pie.\"--Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGISH JEN is the author of four novels, a book of stories, and two books of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Girl at the Baggage Claim \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTiger Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. Her honors include the Lannan Literary Award for fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts \u0026amp; Sciences. She teaches from time to time in China and otherwise lives with her husband and two children in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 8.12 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42132467056775,"sku":"9780679776505","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/54fcf6f8a946f36f0f89fbb3d2da649f.webp?v=1732626622","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/mona-in-the-promised-land-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}