“What a f**king amazing novel, wild like love and twice as revealing. Gish Jen has written the multigenerational mother-daughter epic of our new century. BAD BAD GIRL spans decades, oceans, continents, generations, languages, showing us we can escape almost anything - except the voice of our parents.” —Junot Diaz
“A transcendent work of art.” — The Boston Globe
“A heart-piercingly personal work that also imparts universal truths… If there is such a thing as an intimate epic, this is it.” — The Los Angeles Times
“The story of what it means to be American in an era of sweeping demographic change enlarges Bad Bad Girl, sweetened by comic touches and a final note of grace. If memory is the mother of the muses, as the Greek poet Hesiod observed, then perhaps a difficult mother is just the right muse for a memorable tale.”—The Washington Post
“In forthright and profound ways, Jen sought the most difficult path: to understand… an extraordinary book.” — WBUR
“… As moving and healing as they come.” – NPR
“Brims with hard-won insights…nearly every page will have readers nodding in recognition.” — The Minnesota Star Tribune
“Heartbreaking and stunning.” - Library Journal ✪
“A great novelist distills the truth of her mother’s life, and her own.” —Kirkus Reviews ✪
“Really very good… Bad Bad Girl is shocking, illuminating and in places truly heartbreaking. When a book contains all of that, does it really matter which category it falls into?”—The London Times
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“A singular intergenerational novel … Imperative for anyone interested in immigrant experiences, the complexities of family, and the art of writing personal history.” – Shelf Awareness ✪
“Mother-daughter stories are fixtures in literature, but not many are as original and slyly surreal as Bad Bad Girl . . . one of the best you’ll encounter.” — BookPage ✪
“Astute and revelatory.” — Publisher’s Weekly ✪