Mona in the Promised Land Paperback - 1997
by Gish Jen
The author of "Typical Americans" sets readers' notions of cultural diversity and ethnic identity spinning in "Mona in the Promised Land". Moving to Scarshill, New York, with her newly prosperous family, Mona Chang discovers that, in 1968, the Chinese have become the "new Jews".
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In 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.
"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
Details
- Title Mona in the Promised Land
- Author Gish Jen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-04-01
- ISBN 9780679776505 / 0679776508
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.12 x 5.26 x 0.66 in (20.62 x 13.36 x 1.68 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Humorous stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95044447
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 06/01/2001, Page 1837
- New York Times, 05/18/1997, Page 36
- Publishers Weekly, 03/17/1997, Page 0
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