Thank You, Mr. Nixon by Gish Jen

Thank You, Mr. Nixon by Gish Jen

A novel-in-stories, Thank You, Mr. Nixon takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people.

Marvelous...On the surface her storytelling seems simple and direct, but the closer you look the more layered and complex it becomes. --The New York Times

Beginning with a cheery letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to poor Mr. Nixon in hell, Gish Jen embarks on a fictional journey through U.S.-China relations, capturing the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change.

Opal Chen reunites with her Chinese sisters after forty years; newly cosmopolitan Lulu Koo wonders why Americans like to walk around in the woods with the mosquitoes; and Hong Kong parents go to extreme lengths to reestablish contact with their number-one daughter in New York.

With their profound compassion and equally profound humor, these stories trace the intimate ways in which humans make and are made by history. Delightful, provocative, and powerful, Thank You, Mr. Nixon captures an extraordinary era in an extraordinary way. A book only Gish Jen could write, it furnishes yet more proof of her eminent place among American storytellers.

GISH JEN is the author of one previous book of stories, five novels, and two works of nonfiction. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fulbright Foundation, as well as the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories four times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century; she has also delivered the William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in American Studies at Harvard University. She and her husband split their time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Vermont.

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ISBN 13	9780593314098
ISBN 10	0593314093
Title	Thank You, Mr. Nixon
Author	Gish Jen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2022-11-01
Number of pages	272
Prizes	Long-listed for Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2023
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