Word: jens
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...title of Gish Jen's witty 1999 collection of short stories was Who's Irish??but the theme, as it has always been in Jen's work, was "who's American?" It's never been a question with a simple answer. Her Chinese immigrants and their children are neither apple-pie success stories nor tragic victims of American assimilation. In Jen's world Chinese parents open up a restaurant, make money, move to the suburbs, argue in Shanghainese, then find their youngest daughter wants to be Jewish and ditch Mandarin lessons for Hebrew. There's no melting...
...novel The Love Wife, about the fragile, polyracial Wong family, Jen moves one generational step down the immigrant experience. Those children once fresh off the boat are now grown up, with families of their own, bigger houses, dead parents. But far from being settled by the security of the suburbs, the immigrant's essential question?who am I??has only been blurred by blended families and interracial marriage. It's not a question that can be answered by biology or by citizenship papers. The Wongs' teenage daughter Lizzy, adopted as an abandoned baby, complains that no one knows exactly...
Despite graduating last year’s top scorer, Kate McDavitt ’04, assists leader, Mina Pell ’04, all-time shutout leader, Katie Zacarian ’04, and the best defensive player in school history, Jen Ahn ’04, Harvard relied on its youth as it reeled off three straight wins and outscored its opponents by a total...
Three minutes later the Crimson snatched the lead for good, as junior forward Laura Werner smacked a pass from junior midfielder Jen McDavitt into the net from five yards...
...YACHTING Richard Clarke, Toronto Deirdre Crampton, Toronto John Curtis, Kingston, Ont. Nikola Girke, Vancouver Oskar Johansson, Oakville, Ont. Chantal Leger, Senneville, Que. Bernard Luttmer, Pickering, Ont. Ross Macdonald, Vancouver Jen Provan, Toronto Lisa Ross, Lunenburg, N.S. Mike Wolfs, Port Credit...