Funny, surprising and observant, Gish Jen is a brilliant chronicler—in both fiction and nonfiction—of America and the immigrant experience. Jen’s early novels, including her debut Typical American—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award—are classics of American immigrant literature. Jen’s fifth novel, The Resisters, which is coming out in February, is the story of one family struggling to maintain its humanity and normalcy in circumstances that threaten their every value—even their very existence. A feminist baseball dystopia, it presents America’s possible future with both alarm and hope. 

Ann Patchett wrote, “The Resisters is palpably loving, smart, funny and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country, both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece. This is Gish Jen’s moment. She has pitched a perfect game.” 

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