Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang [in Booklist]
23 Dec, by Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost
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Complicated intergenerational relationships have long fueled fiction, with immigration notably adding further challenges to parent-child understanding and bonding. Weike Wang’s provocative sophomore novel (after Chemistry, 2017) again centers on an accomplished Chinese American Harvard graduate with uneasy social, professional, and familial connections. Here Wang dissects the...