Delightful. A literary memory box containing all sorts of tantalizing odds and ends. This collage or mosaic of bright shards has an immediacy and freshness of spirit.
Amy Tan's fiction has always been informed by her experiences and her heritage. Now, in this remarkably candid insight into her life, Tan turns, for the first time, to non-fiction. She takes us on a journey from her childhood, as a sensitive but intelligent young Chinese American, ashamed of her parents' Chinese ways, to the present day and her position as one of the world's best-loved and bestselling novelists.
A Note to the Reader
FATE AND FAITH
The CliffsNotes Version of My Life
How We Knew
A Question of Fate
Faith
CHANGING THE PAST
Last Week
My Grandmother's Choice
Thinly Disguised Memoir
Persona Errata
Scent
AMERICAN CIRCUMSTANCES AND CHINESE CHARACTER
Fish Cheeks
Dangerous Advice
Midlife Confidential
Arrival Banquet
Joy Luck and Hollywood
STRONG WINDS,STRONG INFLUENCES
What She Meant
Confessions
Pretty Beyond Belief
The Most Hateful Words
My Love Affair with Vladimir Nabokov
LUCK, CHANCE,AND A CHARMED LIFE
Inferior Decorating
Room with a View, New Kitchen, and Ghosts
Retreat to Reality
My Hair, My Face, My Nails
The Ghosts of My Imagination
A CHOICE OF WORDS
What the Library Means to Me
Mother Tongue
The Language of Discretion
Five Writing Tips
Required Reading and Other Dangerous Subjects
Angst and the Second Book
The Best Stories
HOPE
What I Would Remember
To Complain Is American
The Opposite of Fate