Joan is okay

Resource Information

The work Joan is okay represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Joan is okay

Statement of responsibility

Weike Wang

Title variation

• Joan is okay
• Joan is OK

Title variation remainder

a novel

Creator

• Wang, Weike

Author

• Wang, Weike

Subject

• Fathers -- Death -- Fiction
• Grief -- Fiction
• Hospitals -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
• Chinese -- United States -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Self-realization in women -- Fiction
• Women physicians -- Fiction
• Intensive care units -- Fiction
• Chinese American women -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Joan is a thirty-something ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. She is intensely devoted to her work and happily solitary, but she sometimes wonders where her true roots lie: at the hospital, where her white coat makes her feel needed, or with her family, who try to shape her life according to their cultural and social expectations. After moving to the United States to secure the American dream for their children, Joan's parents have returned to China, hoping to spend the rest of their lives in their homeland now that Joan and her brother are well established in their careers. But when her father suddenly dies, a series of events sends Joan spiralling out of her comfort zone, forcing her to consider her life anew

Cataloging source

QBOO

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult