Mona in the Promised Land

Mona in the Promised Land
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9780307826589
ISBN-13 : 0307826589
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Book Synopsis Mona in the Promised Land by : Gish Jen

Download or read book Mona in the Promised Land written by Gish Jen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon 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. In 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.


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