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The Hundred Secret Senses
A Literary Fiction Novel by Amy Tan
Subgenres:
- Family Saga,
- Sister Fiction,
- China
This book is for you if you're into...
- Sisters divided by culture and haunted by family secrets
- Stories where ghosts blur the line between past and present
- Narratives shifting between San Francisco and rural nineteenth-century China
From Little Stack
Culture divides two sisters in this book by The Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan. In the 1960s, young Olivia meets Kwan, a sister over a decade older who grew up a world away. Olivia, a half-Chinese girl living in San Francisco, is often embarrassed by this older sister, who sees ghosts and predicts the future. As we follow Olivia into adulthood and her continued struggles with her sister, we’re also shown Kwan’s story and upbringing in China. The result is a moving picture of not only China and America, but what pushes these two sisters apart — and draws them together.
Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope.
In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her "yin eyes." Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage, as Kwan reveals her story, sweeping the reader into the splendor and violence of mid-nineteenth century China.
With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths.
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