Possibly blank. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AUG 16, 2010. The latitude of the city/town. In World And Town, Gish Jen describes concentric circles of isolation among a handful of characters—a widow, a teenager, a divorced homesteader—who have chosen their loneliness, only to find that they don’t much care for it. iso2: The alpha-2 iso code of the country. Moving, humorous, compassionate, and expansive, World and Town is as rich in character as it is brilliantly evocative of its time and place. This is a masterful novel from one of our most admired writers. World and Town is a novel by Gish Jen that follows a Chinese American widow and her friendship with a family of Cambodian immigrants. This information about World and Town shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. who was born in China of a Chinese father and an American mother who was the daughter of missionaries but went native. a US state or Canadian province). a retired teacher—the daughter of an American missionary who abandoned organized Christianity and a Chinese father descended from Confucius—struggles to put her life back together after the deaths of her husband and best friend. . lng: The longitude of the city/town. "World and Town" opens in the point of view of Hattie, a retired teacher who is definitely in the second (if not third) act of her life, grieving her husband and friend, who both died the year before. Moving, humorous, and broad-ranging, World and Town is rich in character and brilliantly evocative of its time and place. diving into the pain and promise of coming to America.” World and Town is about a woman (age 67, how unusual is that for a main character?) Summary From the much-loved author of Who’s Irish? In an interesting reversal, “World and Town” begins in an entirely different mood. This is a truly masterful novel—enthralling, essential, and satisfying. In this thick, satisfying sprawl of a read… Jen gracefully introduces some of the great issues of our time: how the shock of 9/11 reverberated from city to town; how lost souls can cling meanly to fundamentalism; how it feels when a chain store bulldozes into a … World and Town Gish Jen, 2010 Knopf Doubleday 400 pp. World and Town is a novel that unfolds with a great deal of grace.” —PopMatters.com “Jen is masterful at mixing keen observation with wit and wisdom, and she is in top form here . 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