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 ...

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 ...

Trigger warning for any daughter who has ever had a fraught relationship with their mother: Gish Jen’s remarkable and heartbreaking latest book, “Bad Bad Girl,” may prompt a flood of feelings not felt ...

To write about one’s mother is to risk every kind of disapproval, including the posthumous. One imagines that Gish Jen’s mother, had she lived to read it, would have vigorously objected to her ...

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 ...

”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. “Wisdom Corner” is a throwback to ...

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 ...