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100 1 _aJen, Gish,
_eAuthor
_0(DLC)n 90694682
245 1 0 _aBad Bad Girl /
_cGish Jen.
250 _aFirst Edition.
263 _a2510
264 1 _aNew York :
_bAlfred A. Knopf,
_cOctober 21, 2025.
264 4 _c©2025
300 _a324 pages
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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380 _aBook
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380 _aFiction
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385 _aGeneral
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385 _aAny audience
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500 _anew book 2025 fall.
520 _a"Gish's mother--Loo Shu-hsin--is born in 1925 to a wealthy Shanghai family where girls are expected to behave and be quiet. Every act of disobedience prompts the same reprimand: "Bad bad girl! You don't know how to talk!" She gets sent to Catholic school, where she is baptized, re-named for St. Agnes, and, unusually for a girl, given an internationally-minded education. Still, her father would say, "Too bad. If you were a boy, you could accomplish a lot." Aggie finds solace in books, reading every night with a flashlight and an English-Chinese dictionary, before announcing her intention to pursue a Ph.D in America. It is 1947, and with the forces of Communist revolution on the horizon, she leaves--never to return. Lonely and adrift in Manhattan, Aggie begins dating Chao-Pei, an engineering student also from Shanghai. While news of their country and their families grows increasingly dire, they set out to make a new life together: marriage, a number one son, a small house in the suburbs. By the time Gish is born, her parents' marriage is unraveling, and her mother, struggling to understand her strong-willed American daughter, is repeating the refrain that punctuated her own childhood: "Bad bad girl! You don't know how to talk!" Bad Bad Girl is a novel about a mother and a daughter forced to reckon with one another across decades of curiosity and ambition, elation and disappointment, intense intimacy and misunderstanding. Spanning continents and generations, this is a rich, heartbreaking portrait of two fierce women locked in a complicated life-long embrace"--.
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aChinese American families
_vFiction
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650 0 _aChinese Americans
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650 0 _aEmigration and immigration
_vFiction
_0(DLC)sh2008119377
650 0 _aChinese diaspora
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_0(DLC)sh2008007677
650 0 _aMothers and daughters
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655 7 _aNovels.
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655 7 _aAutobiographical fiction.
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