Gish Jen

32 books

America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories by Langston Hughes, Duane Big Eagle, Gary Soto, Toshio Mori, Nicholasa Mohr, Anne Mazer, Toni Cade Bambara, Michele Wallace, Gish Jen, Lensey Namioka, Naomi Shihab Nye, Grace Paley, Mary K. Mazotti, Robert Cormier, Francisco Jiménez

America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories

Langston Hughes, Duane Big Eagle, Gary Soto, Toshio Mori, Nicholasa Mohr, Anne Mazer, Toni Cade Bambara, Michele Wallace, Gish Jen, Lensey Namioka, Naomi Shihab Nye, Grace Paley, Mary K. Mazotti, Robert Cormier, Francisco Jiménez

152 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction middle grade short stories young adult emotional reflective sad slow-paced
The Best American Short Stories 1995 by Katrina Kenison, Jane Smiley

The Best American Short Stories 1995

The Best American Short Stories #1995

Katrina Kenison, Jane Smiley

366 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction short stories dark medium-paced
Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction by Maxine Hong Kingston, Carlos Bulosan, Peter Bacho, Amy Tan, Cynthia Kadohata, Bharati Mukherjee, Diana Chang, Jessica Hagedorn, David Wong Louie, Gish Jen, Cherylene Lee, Shawn Wong, Darrell Lum, Wakako Yamauchi, Kimiko Hahn, Marilyn Chin, Hisaye Yamamoto, Meena Alexander

Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction

Charlie Chan Is Dead #1

Maxine Hong Kingston, Carlos Bulosan, Peter Bacho, Amy Tan, Cynthia Kadohata, Bharati Mukherjee, Diana Chang, Jessica Hagedorn, David Wong Louie, Gish Jen, Cherylene Lee, Shawn Wong, Darrell Lum, Wakako Yamauchi, Kimiko Hahn, Marilyn Chin, Hisaye Yamamoto, Meena Alexander

592 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction short stories emotional informative reflective fast-paced
The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen

The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap

Gish Jen

336 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction psychology sociology travel informative reflective slow-paced
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art by Richard Russo, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman

It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art

Richard Russo, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman

400 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction essays politics short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
The Love Wife by Gish Jen

The Love Wife

Gish Jen

400 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction contemporary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen

Mona in the Promised Land

Gish Jen

320 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction contemporary challenging reflective slow-paced
The Resisters by Gish Jen

The Resisters

Gish Jen

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction dystopian adventurous challenging dark medium-paced
Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories by Gish Jen

Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories

Gish Jen

272 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction short stories emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self by Gish Jen

Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self

Gish Jen

201 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction art challenging informative reflective slow-paced