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The opposite of fate : a book of musings / Amy Tan.

By: Tan, AmyMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Putnam c2003Description: 398 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 0399150749 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Tan, Amy | Tan, Amy -- Family | Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships | Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography | Chinese Americans -- Biography | Free will and determinism | Chinese American families | Fiction -- Authorship | Fate and fatalismDDC classification: 813/.54 | B LOC classification: PS3570.A48 | Z47 2003
Contents:
Fate and faith: CliffsNotes version of my life -- How we knew -- Question of fate -- Faith -- Changing the past: Last week -- My grandmother's choice -- Thinly disguised memoir -- Persona errata -- Scent -- American circumstances and Chinese character: Fish cheeks -- dangerous advice -- Midlife confidential -- Arrival banquet -- Joy luck and Hollywood -- Strong winds, strong influences: What she meant -- Confessions -- Pretty beyond belief -- Most hateful words -- My love affair with Vladimir Nabokov -- Luck, chance, and a charmed life: Inferior decorating -- Room with a view, new kitchen, and ghosts -- Retreat to reality -- My hair, my face, my nails -- Ghosts of my imagination -- Choice of words: What the library means to me -- Mother tongue -- Language of discretion -- Five writing tips -- Required reading and other dangerous subjects -- Angst and the second book -- Best stories -- Hope: What I would remember -- To complain is American -- Opposite of fate.
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Item type Current location Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book Cavalry Hill Branch
Adult biographies 		Adult biographies B TAN TAN (Browse shelf) 1 Available 31562011773266
Book Book Downtown Branch
Adult biographies 		Adult biographies B TAN TAN (Browse shelf) 1 Available 31562009902513
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Fate and faith: CliffsNotes version of my life -- How we knew -- Question of fate -- Faith -- Changing the past: Last week -- My grandmother's choice -- Thinly disguised memoir -- Persona errata -- Scent -- American circumstances and Chinese character: Fish cheeks -- dangerous advice -- Midlife confidential -- Arrival banquet -- Joy luck and Hollywood -- Strong winds, strong influences: What she meant -- Confessions -- Pretty beyond belief -- Most hateful words -- My love affair with Vladimir Nabokov -- Luck, chance, and a charmed life: Inferior decorating -- Room with a view, new kitchen, and ghosts -- Retreat to reality -- My hair, my face, my nails -- Ghosts of my imagination -- Choice of words: What the library means to me -- Mother tongue -- Language of discretion -- Five writing tips -- Required reading and other dangerous subjects -- Angst and the second book -- Best stories -- Hope: What I would remember -- To complain is American -- Opposite of fate.

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