Such marvels the dead are: They never fail to surprise the living. This is particularly true of deceased parents and all the conversations they insist on having with their adult children. Now that ...

A packed crowd filled the Regatta Bar at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge for the "Earfull Series," a live program pairing musicians and writers. The featured guest was acclaimed author Gish Jen, whose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bestselling author Gish Jen's latest book is "Bad Bad Girl," out Oct. 21. (Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images) Even the most ...

First, you get stuck with a crappy mom. Then she lives to be 95. That’s nearly a century of terribleness. In “Bad Bad Girl” author Gish Jen’s case, “terrible” doesn’t quite cover it. Her Chinese ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In "Bad Bad Girl," Gish Jen attempts to reconstruct her mother's life from wealthy childhood in China to scrappy immigrant ...

Gish Jen has been publishing novels and short stories since 1991, when her debut, “Typical American,” was nominated for a National Book Critics’ Circle Award. But as Jen points out in the “Author’s ...

”Bad Bad Girl” By Gish Jen Knopf, 328 pages, $29.63 First, you get stuck with a crappy mom. Then she lives to be 95. That’s nearly a century of terribleness. Over a clamor of background noise, author ...