The opposite of fate memories of a writing life

Product Description: Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy. With the same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life and how she escaped the curses of her pas...

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Main Author: Tan, Amy
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2004, ©2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Note to the reader
  • 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.