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The acclaimed novelist mines her own family history for an intimate story of mothers, daughters, and the wounds that echo across generations. For event details and more, visit https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/... READ THE BOOK NYPL Catalog: https://borrow.nypl.org/search/card?i... The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: https://shop.nypl.org/collections/eve... LIVE FROM NYPL Upcoming Events: https://nypl.org/live Sign up for our newsletters: https://pages.email.nypl.org/updates Gish Jen’s latest novel, Bad Bad Girl, began as a memoir of her late mother, Loo Shu-hsin, before evolving into a fictionalized portrait of their turbulent mother-daughter relationship. As a child Shu-hsin learns how little her life is valued as a woman in 1930s Shanghai and is constantly reprimanded, “Bad bad girl! You don’t know how to talk!” Years later, struggling to keep her own family together as an expat in America, she finds herself incanting the same refrain to her own strong-willed, outspoken daughter. Spanning continents, generations, and cultures, Bad Bad Girl weaves fragments of memory with careful invention to create an intimate portrait of the complex bonds between mothers and daughters. Gish Jen discusses her new book with author Weike Wang. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Gish Jen is the author of six novels, two books of stories, and two works of nonfiction. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fulbright Foundation, as well as the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her stories have been chosen for The Best American Short Stories five times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She and her husband split their time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Bad Bad Girl is her latest novel. Weike Wang is the author of Chemistry (Knopf, 2017), Joan Is Okay (Random House, 2022), and Rental House (Riverhead, 2024). She is the recipient of a PEN/Hemingway, a Whiting Award, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, Best American Short Stories, and has won an O. Henry Prize. She earned her MFA from Boston University and her other degrees from Harvard. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Barnard College and Boston University. The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms. To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.