When Gish asks her about her feelings, Agnes yells, “Too much psychological!” Gish freely guilt-trips her mom about her shortcomings as both a mother and an “overseas daughter,” and Agnes says, “Bad ...

In this genre-bending book, Jen explores her damaging relationship with her mother, how she became a writer, and her mother’s ...

The author page of “Next to Heaven,” James Frey’s new novel, breathlessly notes that Frey “was called America’s Most Notorious Author by Time Magazine and the Bad Boy of American Literature by The New ...

To write about one’s mother is to risk every kind of disapproval, including the posthumous. One imagines that Gish Jen’s ...