Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Understanding Gish Jen -- Chapter 2 Typical American: Immigrant American Dreams -- Chapter 3 Mona in the Promised Land: Switching and Choosing One's Identity -- Chapter 4 Who's Irish? The Short Fiction of Gish Jen -- Chapter 5 The Love Wife: Polyphonic Voices of the American Family -- Chapter 6 World and Town: Growing Old in a Global New World Order -- Chapter 7 Tiger Writing and Other Essays: Gish Jen as Public Intellectual -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.