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American Woman:

A Novel
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HarperCollins, Sep 7, 2004 - Fiction - 384 pages

On the lam for an act of violence against the American government, 25-year-old Jenny Shimada agrees to care for three younger fugitives whom a shadowy figure from her former radical life has spirited out of California. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate in San Francisco, has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors' ideology and joining their revolutionary cell.

A thought-provoking meditation on themes of race, identity, and class, American Woman explores the psychology of the young radicals, the intensity of their isolated existence, and the paranoia and fear that undermine their ideals.

  

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Writing is insightful, crisp, amusing, and timeless. - Goodreads
Gripping plot along with astounding life observation. - Goodreads
The pacing was excellent. - Goodreads
Choi's prose is full and worth a slow read. - Goodreads
Susan Choi is a beguiling writer. - Goodreads
Does not have a very conclusive ending (for me). - Goodreads

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User Review  - Roxanne Russell - Goodreads

When I first started reading this novel, I felt the author's painstaking writing process in every sentence. Eventually, the story was interesting enough to overshadow the author's resounding ... Read full review

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User Review  - Sally Kenney - Goodreads

My least favorite of her three, but it grew on me. Reminded me a bit of The Last of Her Kind, captures the craziness of the times, with an Asian twist. Read full review

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Selected pages

Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
28
Section 3
55
Section 4
93
Section 5
118
Section 6
128
Section 7
145
Section 8
149
Section 12
250
Section 13
265
Section 14
286
Section 15
313
Section 16
324
Section 17
340
Section 18
344
Section 19
355

Section 9
178
Section 10
208
Section 11
237
Section 20
358
Section 21
371
Copyright

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American Woman: A Novel
Susan Choi
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About the author (2004)

Susan Choi was born in Indiana and grew up in Texas. Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Discover Great New Writers Award at Barnes & Noble. With David Remnick, she edited an anthology of fiction entitled Wonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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TitleAmerican Woman: A Novel
AuthorSusan Choi
Editionreprint
PublisherHarperCollins, 2004
ISBN0060542225, 9780060542221
Length384 pages
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