For author Gish Jen, the daughter of Chinese immigrant parents, books were once an Outsiders' Guide to the Universe. But they were something more, too. Through her eclectic childhood reading, Jen stumbled onto a cultural phenomenon that would fuel her writing for decades to come: the profound differ[...]

From the highly praised author of "Mona in the Promised Land" and "Who's Irish?" comes a generous, funny, explosive novel about the new "half-half" American family.[...]