# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Flann's Book Club : Bad Bad Girl by Gish Jen
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us to discuss the book that was named the highest rated fiction book of 2025!

The award-winning author of The Resisters returns with an engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.

My mother had died, but still I heard her voice. . .

Gish’s mother—Loo Shu-hsin—is born in 1925 to a wealthy Shanghai family where girls are expected to behave and be quiet. Every act of disobedience prompts the same “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 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 “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 each other 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 lifelong embrace.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Crozet
- **state**: VA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 5792 Three Notched Road , Crozet, VA, United States, Virginia 22932
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- **long**: -78.69985
- **full address**: 5792 Three Notched Road , Crozet, VA, United States, Virginia 22932

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- **organizer**: Bluebird & Co. (https://allevents.in/org/bluebird-and-co/20457614)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 5792 Three Notched Road , Crozet, VA, United States, Virginia 22932
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Bluebird & Co.
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Flann's Book Club : Bad Bad Girl by Gish Jen ?
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