Opposite of Fate Memories of a Writing Life

Summary: Amy Tan Gives Us a Story That is Just as Wondrous as Her Fiction: Her Own Life. Bestselling novelist Amy Tan shares the story of 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 both 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 in...troducing us to the ghosts that inhabit her computer, The Opposite of Fate presents a refreshing meditation on the choices, charms, freedoms, and luck that affect us all. [read more]