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From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Mona in the Promised Land and Thank You, Mr. Nixon comes acomic masterpiece, an insightful novel of immigrants experiencing the triumphs andtrials of American life.

Gish Jen reinvents the American immigrant story throughthe Chang family, who first come to the United States with no intention of the Communists assume control of China in 1949, though, Ralph Chang, his sisterTheresa, and his wife Helen, find themselves in a crisis. At first, they cling totheir old-world ideas of themselves. But as they begin to dream the American dreamof self-invention, they move poignantly and ironically from people who disparageall that is “typical American” to people who might be seen as typically Americanthemselves. With droll humor and a deep empathy for her characters, Gish Jen createshere a superbly engrossing story that resonates with wit and wisdom even as it challengesthe reader to reconsider what a typical American might be today.