Gish Jen's "Bad Bad Girl" tells the story of the author's damaging relationship with her mother. (Book cover courtesy Knopf; author photo courtesy Basso Cannarsa) Gish Jen’s “Bad Bad Girl” is a ...

Such marvels the dead are: They never fail to surprise the living. This is particularly true of deceased parents and all the conversations they insist on having with their adult children. Now that ...

Trigger warning for any daughter who has ever had a fraught relationship with their mother: Gish Jen’s remarkable and heartbreaking latest book, “Bad Bad Girl,” may prompt a flood of feelings not felt ...

To write about one’s mother is to risk every kind of disapproval, including the posthumous. One imagines that Gish Jen’s mother, had she lived to read it, would have vigorously objected to her ...