BILL MOYERS: What did they think when TYPICAL AMERICAN, your first book, was such a success? GISH JEN: Well, they were happy enough. It was fine. But there was a moment where suddenly it became ...

Here in Cambridge’s Neighborhood Nine is your typical ... the book, subtitled “Art, Culture and the Interdependent Self,” at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. She has gone by Gish Jen for ...

What does a typical American family look like? This is a question Jen Gish loves tackling in her work ... "When I was writing this book in a slightly unconventional form, which was exciting ...

and one other book of short stories. Of her first novel, 1992’s “Typical American,” The New York Times said, “no paraphrase could capture the intelligence of Gish Jen’s prose ...

In three previous novels and a book of short fiction, Gish Jen draped her ... to reveal themselves. In “Typical American,” readers came to understand, through Jen’s adroit storytelling ...

Jen, who looked at family identity in her previous book, "The Love Wife," spoke to ... biological and adopted children as very much an American phenomenon, which is both something that you would ...

Half-Chinese, half-American, at age 68 Hattie remains as clear-sighted as the day she arrived. Wearing two pairs of glasses, for reading and distance, may make her seem quirky. She isn’t.