![]() Unlike thoroughly modern and American Olivia (as she believes herself to be), Kwan speaks broken English, knows nothing, about life in America, and sees ghosts. ![]() Kwan was her father’s first child he left her behind when he had a chance to come to the United States in the late 1940s. Unfortunately, the excitement didn’t last long after Olivia met Kwan. Olivia was very excited to learn that she had a sister. This is not another Joy Luck Club, however, as the the plot asks us to take a chance on the idea of reincarnation and promises kept across lifetimes. In this novel, Tan once again explores cultural and generational clashes between Chinese American and Chinese relatives. The Hundred Secret Senses delivered it was even better than I remembered. I needed a good book to read today, since the last two books I read were kind of duds. It’s been so long since I read Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses that all I could remember about it was that a) I really liked it, b) there was reincarnation, and c) hundred-year-old duck eggs somehow played a role in the plot. ![]()
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