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Bad bad girl
Jen, Gish2025
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Growing up in an affluent neighbourhood in 1930s Shanghai, Loo Shu-hsin is told that it is 'no good for a girl to be smart' - and yet when rumours of the revolution reach their enclave, she is the one sent abroad for an education. In New York, she meets Chao-Pei, a Chinese engineering student, and they set out to make a life together. By the time their daughter - Gish Jen - is born, her parents have only sporadic contact with their families, who are locked in repressive Maoist China. And in her struggle to discipline her American daughter, Loo Shu-hsin finds herself repeating the punishing refrains - 'Bad bad girl! You don't know how to talk!' - that punctured her own childhood. 'Bad Bad Girl' is a compelling exploration of a mother's life in exile from one of America's finest stylists.
Main title:
Bad bad girl / Gish Jen.
Author:
Jen, Gish, author
Imprint:
London : Granta Books, 2025.
Collation:
352 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781803513249 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
LC class:
PS3560.E474
Local class:
FT
Language:
English
BRN:
4298470
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