An unsentimental, insightful, and brutally honest account of Chinese family relationships, in China and in the West -- Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans What an amazing novel, wild like love and twice as revealing. Gish Jen has written the multigenerational mother-daughter epic of our new century. Bad Bad Girl spans decades, oceans, continents, generations, languages, showing us we can escape almost anything - except the voices of our parents -- Junot Díaz A tender, poignant family history, laced with sharp insight and quiet humour. Bad Bad Girl is not just the story of women who journeyed from the old world to the new, but also of the luminous, deeply personal world they carried within -- Yan Ge, author of Strange Beasts of China Reading Bad Bad Girl, I felt a deep ache for mothers and daughters divided by culture and silence. Gish Jen writes tenderly about a woman carrying old China in her bones while raising a child in America. This story shows how quiet courage can be, and how a "bad girl" is often just a woman who refuses to vanish. Many will find comfort and recognition in these pages -- Xinran Xue, author of The Good Women of China Shocking, illuminating and in places truly heartbreaking. When a book contains all of that, does it really matter which category it falls into? * Sunday Times *
