{"id":40737,"date":"2015-04-03T20:12:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T20:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40737"},"modified":"2015-04-03T20:12:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T20:12:05","slug":"the-love-wife-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40737","title":{"rendered":"The Love Wife: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/87011\/the-love-wife-by-gish-jen\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Love Wife: A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knopfdoubleday.com\/imprint\/vintage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vintage Books<\/a><br \/>\n2005-10-11<br \/>\n400 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-4000-7651-2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gishjen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gish Jen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/87011\/the-love-wife-by-gish-jen\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.randomhouse.com\/cover\/9781400076512?height=450&amp;.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a \u201chalf half\u201d family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegie\u2019s Chinese heritage, his wife Blondie\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant\" target=\"_blank\">WASP<\/a> background, and the various ethnic permutations of their adopted and biological children. Into this new American family comes a volatile new member. Her name is Lanlan. She is Carnegie\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mainland_Chinese\" target=\"_blank\">Mainland Chinese<\/a> relative, a tough, surprisingly lovely survivor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cultural_Revolution\" target=\"_blank\">Cultural Revolution<\/a>, who comes courtesy of Carnegie\u2019s mother\u2019s will. Is Lanlan a very good nanny, a heartless climber, or a posthumous gift from a formidable mother who never stopped wanting her son to marry a nice Chinese girl? Rich in insight, buoyed by humor, <em>The Love Wife<\/em> is a hugely satisfying work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Love Wife: A Novel Vintage Books 2005-10-11 400 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4000-7651-2 Gish Jen From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a \u201chalf half\u201d family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegie\u2019s Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,8,15],"tags":[6418,19800],"class_list":["post-40737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-gish-jen","tag-vintage-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}