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Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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Amy Tan, who has an unerring eye for relationships between mothers and daughters, especially Chinese-American, has departed from her well-known genre in Saving Fish From Drowning. She would be well advised to revisit that theme which she writes about so well. The title of the book is derived from the practice of Myanmar fishermen who "sc... »
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The Joy Luck Club
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Generally, I am drawn to stories that expose me to cultures unlike my own. From that perspective alone, I found Tan's novel to be intriguing and genuine; the individual stories are rich in culture and language. I believe I would have enjoyed it more had the book been presented as a collection of short stories instead. The lack of continuity from cha... »
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The Bonesetter's Daughter: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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At the beginning of Amy Tan's fourth novel, two packets of papers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of Ruth Young. One bundle is titled Things I Know Are True and the other, Things I Must Not Forget. The author? That would be the protagonist's mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In these docum... »
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The Hundred Secret Senses
Tan's novel of the conflicts between two very different Chinese-American sisters spent 12 weeks on Publisher's Weekly's bestseller list. As in Tan's previ... »
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The Joy Luck Club: A Novel
Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women,... »
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The Kitchen God's Wife
Tan's second book is The Kitchen God's Wife. Like the Joy Luck Club, the storyline revolves around issues of mother-daughter relationships, family obliga... »
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The Opposite of Fate
Amy Tan begins The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, a collection of essays that spans her literary career, on a humorous note; she is troubled ... »
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The Best American Short Stories 1999
A great story gets its hooks into you right from the start; you know you're in the hands of a good writer when the very first sentence transports you who... »
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