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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
ISBN: 0679776508
Release Date: Jan 3, 1997
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This novel focuses on Ralph and Helen Chang's "teenager, Mona. The success of their pancake restaurant has enabled the Changs to move to . . . Scarshill, New York, circa 1968. Drawn by the good schools and the majestic landscaping, the Changs are unprepared to deal with their daughter's attempts to assimilate into the community, namely, her decision to convert to Judaism. As Mona takes instruction from an unconventional rabbi, participates in rap sessions with her fellow temple-goers, and has her first sexual encounter with a smart, politically active college dropout, the Changs are at first bemused and then thunderstruck by their daughter's un-Chinese-like behavior." (Booklist)
| | | | From The Publisher
It is 1968, the dawn of the age of ethnicity: African Americans are turning Chinese, Jews are turning black, and though some nice Chinese girls are turning more Chinese, teenaged Mona Chang is turning Jewish, much to her parents' chagrin. The Chang family has just moved to posh Scarshill, New York, where the rhododendrons are as big as the Chang family's old bathroom, and no one trims the forsythia into little can shapes. This takes some getting used to, especially since there's also a new social landscape, with a hot line, a mystery caller, and a Temple Youth Group full of radical ideas. Mona quickly bleaches her bell-bottoms; then it's off with her friends to reform race relations. They find a cause in Alfred, the handsome black number-two cook at Mona's parents' pancake house, and pretty soon there is a mansion hideout with an underground railroad and a utopia called Camp Gugelstein. Certain love affairs run into trouble, though. And by the end, for better or for worse, unforeseen truths of contemporary America have been memorably revealed.
| | | | Annotation
The author of Typical Americans sets readers' notions of cultural diversity and ethnic identity spinning in Mona in the Promised Land. Moving to Scarshill, New York, with her newly prosperous family, Mona Chang discovers that, in 1968, the Chinese have become the "new Jews." 320 pp. National ads, publicity. 40,000 print.
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Avid fiction reader
-- Ilene, a 1970 HS grad and former Bronxite, September 20, 2000
Avid fiction reader
-- Ilene, a 1970 HS grad and former Bronxite, September 20, 2000
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
It is 1968, the dawn of the age of ethnicity. In Scarshill, New York, the Chang family is getting used to a new social landscape, and a new political world. An audacious, enthralling, and important new book by an emerging American voice
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