While not a fast read, it is a compelling story that captivates you from the first page. My thoughts: This is the first Amy Tan book I’ve read and I really enjoyed it.
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. Why I read this: The publicist promoting the re-release of this book asked if I would be willing to read it.įrom the back of the book: 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.
First line: My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes.
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