Who's Irish?

Gish Jen

first published 1999 Random House Inc, 1999 paperback 224 pages

In eight stories, the author of Mona in the Promised Land and Typical American chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on America - with sometimes comic, sometimes heart-breaking results. Life now is not what it was a generation ago, but is it any easier? A Chinese-American woman attempts to discipline her Chinese-Irish-American...

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Who's Irish? edition · 2000 · Vintage · 224 pages · 9780375705922
Who's Irish? edition · 1999 · A.A. Knopf · 207 pages
Who's Irish? paperback · 1999 · Random House Inc · 224 pages · 9781862072763

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