Saving Fish from Drowning
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San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires. On Christmas morning, the tourists cruise across a misty lake and disappear.
With picaresque characters and mesmerizing imagery, Saving Fish from Drowning gives us a voice as idiosyncratic, sharp, and affectionate as the mothers of The Joy Luck Club. Bibi is the observant eye of human nature—the witness of good intentions and bad outcomes, of desperate souls and those who wish to save them. In the end, Tan takes her readers to that place in their own heart where hope is found.
Amy Tan
Born in the US to immigrant Chinese parents, Amy Tan failed her mother's expectations that she become a doctor and concert pianist. She settled on writing fiction. Her novels are The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, Saving Fish from Drowning, and The Valley of Amazement, all New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of a memoir, The Opposite of Fate, and two children's books. Her work has been translated into 35 languages.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm not sure why this book is so intriguing to me - as corny as this sounds, something about it speaks to me. I've read or listened to it at least three times.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What an imagination! The story was entertaining and the writing was lovely. This is a book to go back to time and again.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed this story very much but I’m taking away one star (should have been two!) for the HORRIBLE narration by author Amy Tan. I love her writing but I will never listen to another audiobook narrated by her. Pay a professional next time and stick to your great talent of writing fiction, Amy!
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