| Description |
398 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Fate and faith: CliffsNotes version of my life -- How we knew -- 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 -- 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 -- Ghosts of my imagination -- Choice of words: What the library means to me -- Mother tongue -- Language of discretion -- Five writing tips -- Required reading and other dangerous subjects -- Angst and the second book -- Best stories -- Hope: What I would remember -- To complain is American -- Opposite of fate. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.7 19.0 84290. |
| Subject |
Tan, Amy.
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Tan, Amy -- Family.
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Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
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Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Chinese Americans -- Biography.
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Free will and determinism.
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Chinese American families.
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Fiction -- Authorship.
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Fate and fatalism.
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| ISBN |
0399150749 alkaline paper |
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