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...Jen chose again to “do something with words...
After spending a year in China teaching English at a coal mining institute, Jen enrolled in the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where she earned...
...Jen says her first novel, Typical American, came out of her time in China, when she “began to understand what it meant to be Chinese, and to realize what part of who I am came from my parents...
...wrote the book, a tale of three Chinese immigrants in search of the American dream, when she returned to Radcliffe in 1987 as a Bunting Institute Fellow. It immediately garnered critical acclaim and national attention at a time, Jen says, when multiculturalism became a popular theme in literature...
...jotting down story ideas, and I came up with Chinese-American becomes Jewish,” Jen says. “And I said, ‘Oy!, can’t write about that!’ Then I realized I liked the way it made me laugh. I asked myself, why is that so funny? It led to many discoveries...