Who's Irish?

Stories

Fiction & Literature, Family Life, Short Stories
Cover of the book Who's Irish? by Gish Jen, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Gish Jen ISBN: 9780307826541
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: August 29, 2012
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Gish Jen
ISBN: 9780307826541
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: August 29, 2012
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

The stories in Who's Irish? show us the children of immigrants looking wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation asks how so much selfless hard work on their part can have yielded them offspring who'd sooner drop out of life than succeed at it. 

With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen—author of the acclaimed novels *Typical American *and Mona in the Promised Land—looks at ambition and compromise at century's end and finds that much of the action is as familiar—and as strange—as the things we know to be most deeply true about ourselves.

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The stories in Who's Irish? show us the children of immigrants looking wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation asks how so much selfless hard work on their part can have yielded them offspring who'd sooner drop out of life than succeed at it. 

With dazzling wit and compassion, Gish Jen—author of the acclaimed novels *Typical American *and Mona in the Promised Land—looks at ambition and compromise at century's end and finds that much of the action is as familiar—and as strange—as the things we know to be most deeply true about ourselves.

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