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Author Tan, Amy.

Title The opposite of fate : a book of musings / Amy Tan.

Publication Info. New York : Putnam, [2003]
©2003

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 Moore Stacks  PS3570.A48 Z47 2003    Available  ---
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.
Subject Tan, Amy.
Tan, Amy.
Tan, Amy -- Family.
Families.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Novelists, American.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Chinese Americans -- Biography.
Chinese Americans.
Free will and determinism.
Free will and determinism.
Chinese American families.
Chinese American families.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Fate and fatalism.
Fate and fatalism.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0399150749 alkaline paper