World and Town: A Novel
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Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: โIt was like having twinsโฆShe got to book the same church with the same pianist for both funerals and did think she should have gotten some sort of twofer from the crematorium.โ
But two years later, itโs time for Hattie to start over. She moves to a small New England town where she is soon joined by a Cambodian American family and an ex-loverโnow a retired neuroscientistโall of them looking for their own new lives.
What Hattie makes of this situation and of the changing town of Riverlakeโchallenged as it is, in 2001, by fundamentalist Christians, struggling family farms, and unexpected immigrantsโlies at the center of a novel that asks deep and absorbing questions about religion, home, and what โworldsโ we make of the world.
Moving, humorous, and broad-ranging, World and Town is rich in character and brilliantly evocative of its time and place. This is a masterful novel from one of our most admired writers.
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Gish Jen is the author of three previous novels and a collection of stories. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Institute fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writersโ Workshop.
Janet Song is an award-winning audiobook narrator. The recipient of multiple Earphones Awards, she was named one of Audiofileโs Best Voices of 2008 for her narration of Haruki Murakami's After Dark and John Burnham Schwartz's The Commoner. She lives and works in Los Angeles as an actor on stage and screen and has appeared in The Bling Ring, Palo Alto, The Fosters, and Shameless.
