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The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
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Gish Jen
presents
The Girl at the Baggage Claim:
Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
This event includes a book signing
DateFeb
28
Tuesday
February 28, 2017 8:00 PM ET |
LocationHarvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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This event is free; no tickets are required.
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Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning local writer GISH JEN—author of Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and Tiger Writing—for a discussion of her latest book, The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap.
About The Girl at the Baggage Claim
Never have East and West come as close as they are today, yet we are still baffled by one another. Is our mantra "To thine own self be true?" Or do we believe we belong to something larger than ourselves—a family, a religion, a troop—that claims our first allegiance? Gish Jen—drawing on a treasure trove of stories and personal anecdotes, as well as cutting-edge research in cultural psychology—reveals how this difference shapes what we perceive and remember, what we say and do and make—how it shapes everything from our ideas about copying and talking in class to the difference between Apple and Alibaba. As engaging as it is illuminating, this is a book that stands to profoundly enrich our understanding of ourselves and of our world.
Praise
"A fascinating, brilliant book that gripped me from page one. Subtle, erudite, and daring, The Girl at the Baggage Claim is a tour de force by one of the most insightful writers of our time." —Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
"This book gives special proof to the belief that our best novelists are also our best psychologists. With characteristic wit and unfailing insight, Gish Jen creates a genre all her own—uniquely universal, deeply serious, and unselfconsciously joyous." —Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid
"Gish Jen draws on personal experience, interviews with experts, and her astute reading of both literature and social science to illuminate the crucial question of self in culture. Misunderstanding East-West differences can cost us in every way we know how to measure: in money, friendship, education, in the balance of power, and the fate of the planet. The Girl at the Baggage Claim is remarkable and fluent but, most of all, essential." —Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together
"A beautifully observed book with a perfect, light tone, The Girl at the Baggage Claim poignantly captures the personal tussle between independence and interdependence so many of us are caught in. A must read for anyone navigating the East-West divide." —Priya Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens
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