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Mona in the Promised Land : A Novel by Gish Jen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon comes a hilariously funny and seriously important novel (Amy Tan) about American multiculturalism and a Chinese American teenager doing her best to fit ineven if it means converting to Judaism. In these pages, acclaimed author Gish Jen introduces us to teenaged Mona Chang, who in 1968 moves with her newly prosperous family to Scarshill, New York. Here, the Chinese are seen as "the new Jews." What could be more natural than for Mona to take this literallyeven to the point of converting? As Mona attends temple "rap" sessions and falls in love (with a nice Jewish boy who lives in a tepee), Jen introduces us to one of the most charming and sweet-spirited heroines in recent fiction, a girl who can wisecrack with perfect aplomb even when she's organizing the help in her father's pancake house. On every page, Gish Jen sets our received notions spinning with a wit as dry as a latter-day Jane Austen's.

Who reads Mona in the Promised Land : A Novel?

Author

Gish Jen

Publisher

VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307826589

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Young Adult

Rating

3.48 / 5 (1,302 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14