Mona in the Promised Land

Gish Jen. Vintage Books USA, $15.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-679-77650-5

The daughter of Chinese immigrants grows up in an affluent New York suburb in what PW described as a ""wickedly and hilariously observant"" second novel. (Apr.)

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