# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Gish Jen in Person
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us on Thursday, November 13 at 7 PM as Gish Jen talks about her new novel, Bad Bad Girl.About this EventJoin us on Thursday, November 13 at 7 PM as Gish Jen talks about her new novel, Bad Bad Girl. This is the November selection of the First Editions Club.About the BookThe 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 1924 to a wealthy Shanghai family whose girls are expected to restrain themselves. Her beloved nursemaid—far more loving to than her real mother—is torn from her even as she is constantly reprimanded: “Bad bad girl! You don’t know how to talk!” Sent to a modern Catholic school by her progressive father, she receives not only an English name—Agnes—but a first-rate education. To his delight, she excels. But even then he can only sigh, “Too bad. If you were a boy, you could accomplish a lot.” Agnes finds solace in books and, in 1947, announces her intention to pursue a PhD in America. As the Communist revolution looms, she sets sail—never to return.Lonely and adrift in New York, she begins dating Jen Chao-Pe, an engineering student. They do their best to block out the increasingly dire plight of their families back home and successfully establish a new American life: Marriage! A house in the suburbs! A number one son! By the time Gish is born, though, the news from China is proving inescapable; their marriage is foundering; and Agnes, confronted with a strong-willed, outspoken daughter distinctly reminiscent of herself, is repeating the refrain—“Bad bad girl! You don’t know how to talk!”—as she recapitulates the harshness of her own childhood.Spanning continents, generations, and cultures, Bad Bad Girl is a novel only Gish Jen could have written: genre-bending, courageous, wise, and as immensely incisive as it is compassionate.About the AuthorGISH JEN is the author of five novels, two books of stories, and two works of nonfiction. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fulbright Foundation, as well as the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her stories have been chosen for The Best American Short Stories five times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century; she has also delivered the William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in American Studies at Harvard University. She and her husband split their time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
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## Event venue details

- **city**: South Hadley
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Odyssey Bookshop
- **lat**: 42.259151
- **long**: -72.57602
- **full address**: Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College Street, South Hadley, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Gish Jen in Person being held?
  - **A:** Gish Jen in Person takes place on Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm at Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College Street, South Hadley, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Gish Jen in Person?
  - **A:** Gish Jen in Person is organized by Odyssey Bookshop.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Gish Jen in Person is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in South Hadley, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Gish Jen in Person sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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