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The opposite of fate

Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny. She discovers answers in everyday actions and attitudes - from writing stories and decorating her house with charms, to dealing with three members of her family afflicted with brain disease and shaking off both family curses and the expectations that she should become a doctor and a concert pianist. With the same spirit, humor, and magic that characterize her beloved novels, Amy Tan presents a refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties we face today, contemplating how things happen - in her own life and beyond - but always returning to the question of fate and its opposites: the choices, charms, influences, attitudes, and lucky accidents that shape us all.

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  • "The author reflects on her family's Chinese American legacy, her experiences as a writer, her survival of natural disasters, and her struggle to manage three family members afflicted with brain disease."
  • "Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny. She discovers answers in everyday actions and attitudes - from writing stories and decorating her house with charms, to dealing with three members of her family afflicted with brain disease and shaking off both family curses and the expectations that she should become a doctor and a concert pianist. With the same spirit, humor, and magic that characterize her beloved novels, Amy Tan presents a refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties we face today, contemplating how things happen - in her own life and beyond - but always returning to the question of fate and its opposites: the choices, charms, influences, attitudes, and lucky accidents that shape us all."@en
  • "Author Amy Tan presents a collection of autobiographical essays on her family, the twisted road to becoming a novelist despite differing family expectations, and the role of fate in her life."
  • "Amy Tan is the author of best-selling novels The Joy Luck Club, a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses. The Joy Luck Club was made into a film, for which she co-wrote the screenplay. Tan's stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's and The Atlantic. The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings is her first work of non-fiction."
  • "Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The opposite of fate: a book of musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny. She discovers answers in everyday actions and attitudes, from writing stories and decorating her house with charms, to dealing with three members of her family afflicted with brain disease and shaking off both family curses and the expectations that she should become a doctor and a concert pianist."@en
  • "Amy Tan presents a refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties we face today, contemplating how things happen - in her own life and beyond - but always returning to the question of fate and its opposites: the choices, charms, influences, attitudes, and lucky accidents that shape us all."
  • "Chinese-American author Amy Tan, born into a family that believed in fate, explores her legacy as well as her American circumstances, and finds a way to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny."
  • "Chinese-American author Amy Tan, born into a family that believed in fate, explores her legacy as well as her American circumstances, and finds a way to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny."@en

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