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100 1 a| Jen, Gish,e| author.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrm9p8xyqjvMhC3pk4rMP=| ^A507065;

245 10 a| Bad bad girl :b| a novel /c| Gish Jen.;

250 a| First hardcover edition.;

264 1 a| New York :b| Alfred A. Knopf,c| 2025.;

300 a| xiii, 323 pages ;c| 25 cm;

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500 a| "A Borzoi book.";

520 a| "Gish's mother--Loo Shu-hsin--is born in 1924 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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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650 0 a| Mothers and daughtersv| Fiction.=| ^A414870;

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Bad bad girl : a novel / Gish Jen.

Author/creator	Jen, Gish author.
Format	Book
Edition	First hardcover edition.
Publication	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	xiii, 323 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects	Chinese American families--Fiction. Chinese Americans--Fiction. Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Abstract	"Gish's mother--Loo Shu-hsin--is born in 1924 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"-- Provided by publisher.
General note	"A Borzoi book."
Genre/form	Domestic fiction.
Genre/form	HIstorical fiction.
Genre/form	Domestic fiction.
Genre/form	Historical fiction.
Genre/form	Novels.
Genre/form	Romans.
LCCN	2024047385
ISBN	9780593803738
ISBN	0593803736 hardcover
ISBN	electronic book

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