Gish Jen's "Bad Bad Girl" tells the story of the author's damaging relationship with her mother. (Book cover courtesy Knopf; author photo courtesy Basso Cannarsa) Gish Jen’s “Bad Bad Girl” is a ...
First, you get stuck with a crappy mom. Then she lives to be 95. That’s nearly a century of terribleness. In “Bad Bad Girl” author Gish Jen’s case, “terrible” doesn’t quite cover it. Her Chinese ...