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Gish Jen

Who's Irish?

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

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Essay Topics

1.

Compare two or more stories in Who’s Irish? and discuss the larger theme of what it means to be “American.”

2.

Choose two or more stories from Who’s Irish? and examine the effect that unfulfilled cultural expectations, for both Chinese immigrants and their children, have on these families as a whole.

3.

How does Gish Jen use language as a means of conveying isolation for some of the characters in this collection?