num_pages: 398
description: Delve into the stories from Amy Tan's life that inspired bestselling novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement and the new memoir,  Where the Past BeginsAmy 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 past to make a future of her own. She takes us on a journey from her childhood of tragedy and comedy to the present day and her arrival as one of the world's best-loved novelists. Whether recalling arguments with her mother in suburban California or introducing us to the ghosts that inhabit her computer, The Opposite of Fate offers vivid portraits of choices, attitudes, charms, and luck in action--a refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties we all face today.
language: English
title: The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
titlecomplete: The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
genres: China, Asia, Essays, Biography, Asian Literature, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Writing, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 8352
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Audie Award
category: Nonfiction, Abridged
publisher: Penguin Books