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The Opposite of Fate - by Amy Tan (Paperback)
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2025-07-26
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Number of Pages: 416
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Age Range: Adult
Author: Amy Tan
Language: English
Sharp and invigorating . . . fertile reading. (The New York Times Book Review) Wickedly funny and honest. (O Magazine) A melodramatic, tragic and comedic tale . . . Tan is refreshingly candid. (The Baltimore Sun)
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Age Range: Adult
Author: Amy Tan
Language: English
About the Book
Internationally bestselling novelist Amy Tan's first work of nonfiction reveals personal stories of her life and family, and of faith and fate. A "New York Times" Notable Book. Photos throughout.Book Synopsis
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 Begins 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 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.Review Quotes
Sharp and invigorating . . . fertile reading. (The New York Times Book Review) Wickedly funny and honest. (O Magazine) A melodramatic, tragic and comedic tale . . . Tan is refreshingly candid. (The Baltimore Sun)
About the Author
Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate, Saving Fish from Drowning, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which has been adapted as Sagwa, a PBS series for children. Tan was also the co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club, and her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Tan, who has a master's degree in linguistics from San Jose University, has worked as a language specialist to programs serving children with developmental disabilities. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.
