num_pages: 321
description: Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her life upside down, bombarding her day and night with ghostly stories of strange ancestors from the world of Yin. Olivia just wants to lead a normal American life. For the next thirty years, Olivia endures visits from Kwan and her ghosts, who appear in the living world to offer advice on everything from restaurants to Olivia's failed marriage. But just when she cannot bear it any more, the revelations of a tragic family secret finally open her mind to the startling truths hidden in Kwan's unorthodox vision of the world.
language: English
title: The Hundred Secret Senses
titlecomplete: The Hundred Secret Senses
genres: Historical, Asian Literature, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Asia, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, China
ratings_count: 44214
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Harper Perennial