Mona in the Promised Land A Novel

Name: Mona in the Promised Land A Novel
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ISBN: 9780679776505

ISBN-10: 0679776508

ISBN-13: 9780679776505

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Authors: Gish Jen

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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…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.17" wide x 7.96" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Gish Jen is a writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of four novels, including Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land. Her most recent novel is World and Town.