Thank You, Mr. Nixon

An eleven-story journey through the all-too-human encounters that ensue when East meets West.

Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to “poor Mr. Nixon” in hell …

Opal Chen reunites with her sisters in China after a hiatus of almost forty years; American Arnie Hsu clashes with his Chinese girlfriend Lulu Koo, who wonders why Americans “like to walk around in the woods with the mosquitoes”; Tina and Johnson Koo take wholly surprising measures to reestablish contact when their “number one daughter,” Bobby, stops answering her phone in New York; and Betty Koo, brought up on “no politics, just make money,” finds she must square her mother’s philosophy with the repression in Hong Kong.

(from Goodreads)

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Gish Jen author website

New York Times interview with Gish Jen

Museum of Chinese in America spotlight on Gish Jen (video)

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