A review by asilrenrut
Who's Irish?: Stories by Gish Jen

5.0

In addition to portraying a wide array of characters and spaces I have never met before--you know what I mean, right? In certain stories, you're like, "I know this character."--not in Jen's stories--I love her quirky word choice. The collection is cliche-free, as I far as I can tell, a does, as the cover jacket text promises, provide "a gently satiric look at the American Dream." Well worth the read. After the opening title story, there is a bit of a slow patch, but if you appreciate the subtlety of her work, as I do, you won't be disappointed if you press on.