Mona in the promised land / Gish Jen.

Title:

ISBN:

9780679776505

9780679445890

Personal Author:

Jen, Gish

Edition:

1st Vintage contemporaries ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Vintage, 1997.

Physical Description:

303 pages ; 21 cm.

Summary:

Unhappy with her own ethnic group, Mona Chang, a Chinese-American, decides to become a Jew. After all, if one has to live as a minority, choose the best. A witty look at ethnicity, multiculturalism and the melting pot. By the author of Typical American.

Geographic Term:

Westchester County (N.Y.) -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Chinese American families--New York (State)--Westchester County -- Fiction.

Chinese Americans--New York (State)--Westchester County -- Fiction.

Girls--New York (State)--Westchester County -- Fiction.

Genre:

Humorous fiction

Bildungsromans

Domestic fiction

Series Sequence:

Vintage Contemporaries