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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375406212
ISBN-13: 9780375406218
Jun 1999
Publisher: Random House Inc
207 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
A collection of stories about Chinese-Americans, including ''House, House, Home,'' a novella-length story about the marriage of a Chinese woman and a Scandinavian man and its perhaps inevitable breakup. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999.
| Size | | Length: | 207 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Like her characters, Ms. Jen has a keen eye for the incongruities of contemporary life, and in this beautifully articulated new collection of stories, she gives us a gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (06/04/1999)
"Jen's gift is for comedy that resonates, and sadnesses that arise with perfect timing from absurdities. Her subject matter is so appealing, it almost obscures the power and suppleness of her language."
New York Times Book Review - Jean Thompson (06/27/1999)
"...Jen's spry comedy comes from being able to look at Chinese and American cultures with both an outsider's and an insider's eye....Jen's fictions are reliably intelligent, funny, lively and true; they are not, however, always well shaped, and she does not seem altogether comfortable with the short-story form."
Times Literary Supplement - Sylvia Brownrigg (07/30/1999)
"Jen's plots are so brazenly unlikely that occasionally one can't help wondering whether she isn't sending up the ideal of racial harmony, which seems to be the underlying theme--message, even--in all of them. But no one who wasn't sincere could have concocted the embarrassing last paragraphs of 'House, House, Home'."
London Review of Books - Gabriele Annan (01/06/2000)
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