Editing Gish Jen (section)

==Fiction==
Five of her short stories have been reprinted in ''[[Best American Short Stories|The Best American Short Stories]]''. Her piece "Birthmates", was selected as one of ''The Best American Short Stories of The Century'' by [[John Updike]]. Her works include five novels: ''Typical American'', ''Mona in the Promised Land'', ''The Love Wife'', ''[[World and Town]]'' and ''The Resisters''. She has also written two collections of short fiction, ''[[Who's Irish? (short story)|Who's Irish?]]'', and ''Thank You, Mr. Nixon''.

Her first novel, ''Typical American,'' was nominated for a National Books Critics' Circle Award. Her second novel, ''Mona in the Promised Land,'' features a Chinese-American adolescent who converts to Judaism. ''The Love Wife'', her third novel, portrays an Asian American family with [[interracial marriage|interracial]] parents and both biological and adopted children.

Her fourth novel, ''World and Town,'' portrays a fragile America, its small towns challenged by globalization, development, fundamentalism, and immigration, as well as the ripples sent out by 9/11. ''World and Town'' won the 2011 Massachusetts Book Prize in fiction and was nominated for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie/2012-longlist/|title=2012 Longlist – DUBLIN Literary Award|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=November 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123023507/http://www.dublinliteraryaward.ie/2012-longlist/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Her fifth novel, ''The Resisters'', was released in February 2020 and is a post-automation, feminist baseball dystopia. Set in the not-so-distant future, most jobs are now automated, much seacoast land is under water due to climate change, and the Internet and various social apps have been replaced by one all-seeing Alexa-like sentient Internet. The story centers around a "surplus" family with a prodigy pitching daughter where baseball becomes their field of resistance to an autocratic America.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/the-ascendance-of-bernie-sanders-and-the-novelist-gish-jen|title=The Ascendence of Bernie Sanders, and the Novelist Gish Jen|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en|access-date=2020-02-16}}</ref> A related short story ("Tell Me Everything") was commissioned by ''The New York Times'' as part of their Privacy Project and published January 5, 2020.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/03/opinion/gish-jen-privacy-surveillance.html|title=Tell Me Everything|website=The New York Times|date=January 3, 2020|language=en|access-date=2020-02-20|last1=Jen|first1=Gish}}</ref> Audible commissioned a novella spin-off called "I, Autohouse" as part of its Audible Originals series.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/03/opinion/gish-jen-privacy-surveillance.html|title=I, Autohouse|website=Audible.com|date=June 24, 2021|language=en|access-date=2022-01-07|last1=Jen|first1=Gish}}</ref>

Jen's second story collection, ''Thank You, Mr. Nixon'', was published by [[Knopf]] on February 1, 2022. It consists of eleven interconnected stories that span the 50 years since [[1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China|Nixon's historic visit to China and meeting with Chairman Mao]]. The tenth story in the collection, "No More Maybe", was published in the March 19, 2018 edition of ''The New Yorker'', and the final story in the collection, "Detective Dog", was published in the November 22, 2021 edition of ''The New Yorker'', and takes place in [[COVID-19 pandemic in New York City|COVID]]-ravaged New York City.  "Detective Dog" was selected for the "Best American Short Stories of 2022".