In "Bad Bad Girl," Gish Jen attempts to reconstruct her mother's life from wealthy childhood in China to scrappy immigrant existence in the United States. (Los Angeles Times illustration; book jacket ...
First, you get stuck with a crappy mom. Then she lives to be 95. That’s nearly a century of terribleness. In “Bad Bad Girl” author Gish Jen’s case, “terrible” doesn’t quite cover it. Her Chinese ...
Trigger warning for any daughter who has ever had a fraught relationship with their mother: Gish Jen’s remarkable and heartbreaking latest book, “Bad Bad Girl,” may prompt a flood of feelings not felt ...
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