{"id":4881,"date":"2004-10-08T11:19:59","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T15:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:47:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:47:48","slug":"the-love-wife-by-gish-jen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-love-wife-by-gish-jen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Love Wife by Gish Jen [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/10\/Love-Wife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31280\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/10\/Love-Wife.jpg\" alt=\"Love Wife\" width=\"335\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Jen\u2019s third novel is a bittersweet examination of the Wongs, a complicated Chinese American family with a father named Carnegie (!), a Caucasian mother called Blondie, two Asian adoptee daughters, and one towheaded birthson. Jen\u2019s prose \u2013\u00a0written as a series of interwoven dialogues \u2013\u00a0has a sense of whimsy and delight that almost overshadows, though never diminishes, the seriousness of what happens to the memorable Wongs \u2026 read on.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-10-08-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, October 8, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4855\" title=\"Love Wife\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/love-wife1.jpg\" alt=\"Love Wife\" width=\"125\" height=\"190\" \/>Jen\u2019s third novel is a bittersweet examination of the Wongs, a complicated Chinese American family with a father named Carnegie (!), a Caucasian mother called Blondie, two Asian adoptee daughters, and one towheaded birthson. Jen\u2019s prose \u2013 written as a series of interwoven dialogues \u2013 has a sense of whimsy and delight that almost overshadows, though never diminishes, the seriousness of what happens to the memorable Wongs \u2026 read on.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-10-08-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, October 8, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21,6,6535],"tags":[82,3598,83,84,6608,10,2114,51,25,13,4738],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-chinese-american","category-fiction","category-repost","tag-adoption","tag-asianweek","tag-assimilation","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-family","tag-gish-jen","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-love","tag-love-wife"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Love Wife by Gish Jen [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-love-wife-by-gish-jen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Love Wife by Gish Jen [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jen\u2019s third novel is a bittersweet examination of the Wongs, a complicated Chinese American family with a father named Carnegie (!), a Caucasian mother called Blondie, two Asian adoptee daughters, and one towheaded birthson. 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