{"product_id":"thank-you-mr-nixon-stories-9780593314098","title":"Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Resisters\u003c\/i\u003e takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that only Jen could write--a story collection accruing the power of a novel as it proceeds--a work that Cynthia Ozick has called \"an art beyond art. It is life itself.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with a cheery letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to \"poor Mr. Nixon\" in hell, Gish Jen embarks on a fictional journey through U.S.-China relations, capturing the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOpal Chen reunites with her Chinese sisters after forty years; newly cosmopolitan Lulu Koo wonders why Americans \"like to walk around in the woods with the mosquitoes\"; and Hong Kong parents go to extreme lengths to reestablish contact with their \"number-one daughter\" in New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith their profound compassion and equally profound humor, these stories trace the intimate ways in which humans make and are made by history. Delightful, provocative, and powerful, \u003ci\u003eThank You, Mr. Nixon\u003c\/i\u003e captures an extraordinary era in an extraordinary way. A book only Gish Jen could write, it furnishes yet more proof of her eminent place among American storytellers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGISH JEN is the author of one previous book of stories, five novels, and two works of nonfiction. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fulbright Foundation, as well as the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e four times, including \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories of the Century\u003c\/i\u003e; she has also delivered the William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in American Studies at Harvard University. She and her husband split their time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Vermont.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626358739218,"sku":"9780593314098","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c10a7c10-fe53-4ea5-af9e-e3693cf53b3b.jpg?v=1732657152","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/thank-you-mr-nixon-stories-9780593314098","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}