The opposite of fate
Subtitle: memories of a writing life
By: Amy Tan.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Tan, Amy.; Tan, Amy -- Family.; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Chinese Americans -- Biography.; Free will and determinism.; Chinese American families.; Fiction -- Authorship.; Fate and fatalism.
Genres: Biography.
Table of contents: value: Fate and faith: CliffsNotes version of my life; value: How we knew; value: Question of fate; value: Faith; value: Changing the past: Last week; value: My grandmother's choice; value: Thinly disguised memoir; value: Persona errata; value: Scent; value: American circumstances and Chinese character: Fish cheeks; value: dangerous advice; value: Midlife confidential; value: Arrival banquet; value: Joy luck and Hollywood; value: Strong winds, strong influences: What she meant; value: Confessions; value: Pretty beyond belief; value: Most hateful words; value: My love affair with Vladimir Nabokov; value: Luck, chance, and a charmed life: Inferior decorating; value: Room with a view, new kitchen, and ghosts; value: Retreat to reality; value: My hair, my face, my nails; value: Ghosts of my imagination; value: Choice of words: What the library means to me; value: Mother tongue; value: Language of discretion; value: Five writing tips; value: Required reading and other dangerous subjects; value: Angst and the second book; value: Best stories; value: Hope: What I would remember; value: To complain is American; value: Opposite of fate.