Amy Tan's collections

Amy Tan is one of my favorite author. In fact, my first one. She's a Chinese born, live in US. Her stories is always full with imaginations and the way she portrays the Chinese culture is mortifying. So far I've read most of her book. I will slowly scrabble them here.

The Hundred Secret Senses
This is the first book that brought me to Amy Tan. Its about a woman named Olivia, and her childhood story living with her almost-too-imaginative step-sister, Kwan. Kwan has the abilities of seeing and speaking to the dead, or in other words, ghost. This knowledge annoyed Olivia, but when she took a trip to China with her almost-ex husband and Kwan, she slowly begin to accept and understand Kwan's beliefs.

The Kitchen God's Wife
In The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan wrote about mother and daughter, whom at first far apart from each other's heart, gets closer as the began to understand each other. When Pearl learns about her mom, Winnie hardship during her younger age, she began to adore and respect her mom, even more than she used to think about her. I truly love the few pages before the book ended, at the part where Pearl's mom looking for a Chinese God statue to be put on Pearl's shelf. She was looking not for the normal God statue, but for something that non-others have, something just or Pearl. That's when the shop owner offered the supposed-to-be-defect God statue, which Winnie later named as the Kitchen's God Wife. That scene played with so much affections and feelings. I love it.

The Joy Luck Club
This book, ermm....so so. Its unique because it has so many characters featured, but not so much of imagination and creativity. Almost normal, but still entertaining.

The Bonesetter's Daughter
Again, this book is about mother-daughter relationship. Flashback on a girl's life, of how her mom was being treated by her in-laws family.

Saving Fish From Drowning
The latest Amy Tan's collection that I've read. Nice as usual. In fact, I bought the new version of this book, instead of finding the used ones like I always do. *wink*

The Opposite Of Fate (not yet read)
Right now, I'm waiting for the chance to hunt this non-fiction book authored by Amy Tan. I'm used to read her fictions, so I'm not sure how I will accept this non-fiction work of her. Maybe wait till I read the book, hmm...


The End *smiles*