{"product_id":"last-night-in-brooklyn-1","title":"Last Night in Brooklyn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis large print edition features an easy-to-read larger type size while preserving the complete text of the original edition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Resisters\u003c\/i\u003e returns with an engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy mother had died, but still I heard her voice...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGish's mother, Loo Shu-hsin, is born in 1924 to a wealthy Shanghai family whose girls are expected to restrain themselves. Her beloved nursemaid--far more loving to than her real mother--is torn from her even as she is constantly reprimanded: \"Bad bad girl! You don't know how to talk!\" Sent to a modern Catholic school by her progressive father, she receives not only an English name--Agnes--but a first-rate education. To his delight, she excels. But even then he can only sigh, \"Too bad. If you were a boy, you could accomplish a lot.\" Agnes finds solace in books and, in 1947, announces her intention to pursue a PhD in America. As the Communist revolution looms, she sets sail--never to return.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLonely and adrift in New York, she begins dating Jen Chao-Pe, an engineering student. They do their best to block out the increasingly dire plight of their families back home and successfully establish a new American life: Marriage! A house in the suburbs! A number one son! By the time Gish is born, though, the news from China is proving inescapable; their marriage is foundering; and Agnes, confronted with a strong-willed, outspoken daughter distinctly reminiscent of herself, is repeating the refrain--\"Bad bad girl! You don't know how to talk!\"--as she recapitulates the harshness of her own childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning continents, generations, and cultures, \u003ci\u003eBad Bad Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel only Gish Jen could have written: genre-bending, courageous, wise, and as immensely incisive as it is compassionate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xochitl Gonzalez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46052364320837,"sku":"BS-LIB-534214","price":51.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2482\/2494\/files\/9781420534214-HD.jpg?v=1792351180","url":"https:\/\/libros787.com\/products\/last-night-in-brooklyn-1","provider":"Libros787.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}