The Love WifeThe Love Wife
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Book, 2004
Current format, Book, 2004, First edition., No Longer Available.Book, 2004
Current format, Book, 2004, First edition., No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsFrom the highly praised author ofMona in the Promised LandandWho'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-barred mother, who, eternally opposed to his marriage, has arranged from her grave for a mainland Chinese relation to come look after the kids. Is this woman, as Carnegie claims, a nanny? Or is she, as Blondie fears, something else? What happens as Carnegie and Blondie try to incorporate the ambiguous new arrival into their already complicated lives is touchingly, brilliantly, intricately told. Powerfully evoking the contemporary American family in all its fragility and strength, Gish Jen has given us her most exuberant and accomplished novel.
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- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004., New York : Distributed by Random House
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