The Love Wife

Gish Jen

Original title: The love wife

first published 2004 Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 379 pages

From the highly praised author of Mona in the Promised Land and Who's Irish?--a generous, funny, explosive novel about the new "half-half" American family.Here is Carnegie Wong, second-generation Chinese American warm heart and funny guy. Here is his WASP wife, the delicious "za-za-vavoomy" Blondie. Here are their two adopted Asian daughters, and their half-half bio son. And here is Mama Wong, Carnegie's no-holds-bar...

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The Love Wife paperback · 2005 · Vintage · 400 pages · 9781400076512
The Love Wife ebook · 2004 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9781400043798
The love wife edition · 2004 · Alfred A. Knopf · 379 pages

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