Who’s Irish? Stories
Who’s Irish? Stories by Gish Jen is a collection of short stories published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on June 13, 2000. This 224-page book presents a nuanced exploration of the immigrant experience in America, focusing on the dynamics between first-generation parents and their children as they navigate the complexities of assimilation and identity.
In this collection, Gish Jen employs wit and compassion to examine themes of ambition and compromise, reflecting on the American Dream and its implications for immigrant families. The stories reveal the contrasting perspectives of parents who have worked tirelessly to provide for their children and the younger generation’s struggles with expectations and success. Readers will find a thoughtful portrayal of family life and the challenges faced by Asian American communities, making this edition a significant contribution to contemporary fiction.
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In this dazzling collection of short stories, the award-winning author of the acclaimed novels Thank You, Mr. Nixon and Mona in the Promised Land—presents a “sparkling … gently satiric look at the American Dream and its fallout on those who pursue it” (The New York Times).
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 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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