- American literature, Chinese Americans, Fiction, Physicians
"Joan is a thirtysomething ICU physician at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who moved to America to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful.
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Contemporary, classical in form, prestige and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Weike Wang
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Random House, Text Publishing Company, Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780525654834
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Weike Wang is a Chinese-American author of the novel Chemistry, which won the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award.
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