{"product_id":"bad-bad-girl-a-novel","title":"Bad Bad Girl: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe award-winning author of The Resisters returns with an engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy mother had died, but still I heard her voice. . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGish’s mother—Loo Shu-hsin—is born in 1925 to a wealthy Shanghai family where girls are expected to behave and be quiet. Every act of disobedience prompts the same reprimand: “Bad bad girl! You don’t know how to talk!” She gets sent to Catholic school, where she is baptized, re-named for St. Agnes, and, unusually for a girl, given an internationally minded education. Still, her father would say, \"Too bad. If you were a boy, you could accomplish a lot.\" Aggie finds solace in books, reading every night with a flashlight and an English-Chinese dictionary, before announcing her intention to pursue a Ph.D. in America. It is 1947, and with the forces of Communist revolution on the horizon, she leaves—never to return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLonely and adrift in Manhattan, Aggie begins dating Chao-Pei, an engineering student also from Shanghai. While news of their country and their families grows increasingly dire, they set out to make a new life together: marriage, a number one son, a small house in the suburbs. By the time Gish is born, her parents’ marriage is unraveling, and her mother, struggling to understand her strong-willed American daughter, is repeating the refrain that punctuated her own childhood: “Bad bad girl! You don’t know how to talk!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBad Bad Girl is a novel about a mother and a daughter forced to reckon with each other across decades of curiosity and ambition, elation and disappointment, intense intimacy and misunderstanding. Spanning continents and generations, this is a rich, heartbreaking portrait of two fierce women locked in a complicated lifelong embrace.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52991025283379,"sku":"9780593803738","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/6181\/5859\/files\/9780593803738.jpg?v=1769188766","url":"https:\/\/www.bluebirdcrozet.com\/products\/bad-bad-girl-a-novel","provider":"Bluebird \u0026 Company Crozet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}