The Opposite of Fate, Amy Tan
The Opposite of Fate, Amy Tan
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The Opposite of Fate
Memories of a Writing Life

Author: Amy Tan

Narrator: Amy Tan

Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/11/2016

Synopsis

Delve into the stories from Amy Tan's life that inspired bestselling novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy. With the same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life and 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 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 introducing us to the ghosts that inhabit her computer, The Opposite of Fate offers vivid portraits of choices, attitudes, charms, and luck in action--a refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties we all face today.

About Amy Tan

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Saving Fish from Drowning, and two children's books, The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat, which was adapted into a PBS television series. Tan was also a coproducer and coscreenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club. Her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeana on February 06, 2009

Reading this book is like sitting down to lunch with someone you hardly know and making a new friend. I happen to love Amy Tan's novels. I also like to read about writers and how they got their breaks. This memior/musings/essay book held a lot of the magic that is found in Joy Luck Club/Kitchen God'......more

Goodreads review by Clark on August 14, 2016

Amy Tan is one of the finest American writers we have. I am making it a point not to call her one of our finest women writers or Chinese-American writers or a writer of color, an issue which is explored in this memoir. This book may be a special taste -- you might need to be someone who loves her wo......more

Goodreads review by Tom the Teacher on August 19, 2024

An excellent work of non-fiction by one of contemporary literature's finest talents. Amy Tan has lived an interesting life, that's for sure - familial upheaval, loss, murder, feelings of not fitting in... It would be easy for this book to turn into an endless barrage of traumatic events, but Tan avoi......more

Goodreads review by Eileen on November 01, 2008

I highly recommend this book to all writers as well as those interested in the “evolution” of a writer. I truly enjoyed Amy Tan’s honest and insightful account of her “journey,” told through a series of essays and autobiographical sketches. I especially appreciated Tan’s essay, “Required Reading and......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on July 26, 2013

I really enjoyed this book. It was so different from the books I normally read. Amy Tan has led an interesting life! It was a little slow 3/4 of the way through, but I enjoyed reading about her life and relationship with her mother. Seeking the "American Dream" and the chinese culture of honoring an......more

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