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    Saving Fish from Drowning
    Saving Fish from Drowning
    Saving Fish from Drowning
    Audiobook17 hours

    Saving Fish from Drowning

    Written by Amy Tan

    Narrated by Amy Tan

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    About this audiobook

    San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires. On Christmas morning, the tourists cruise across a misty lake and disappear.

    With picaresque characters and mesmerizing imagery, Saving Fish from Drowning gives us a voice as idiosyncratic, sharp, and affectionate as the mothers of The Joy Luck Club. Bibi is the observant eye of human nature—the witness of good intentions and bad outcomes, of desperate souls and those who wish to save them. In the end, Tan takes her readers to that place in their own heart where hope is found.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 18, 2005
    ISBN9781597377355
    Author

    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.

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    Readers find this title intriguing and entertaining. The writing is lovely and the story is enjoyable. However, some readers were disappointed with the narration by the author. Overall, this book is worth reading and going back to time and again.

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    • 4/5
      I'm not sure why this book is so intriguing to me - as corny as this sounds, something about it speaks to me. I've read or listened to it at least three times.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      What an imagination! The story was entertaining and the writing was lovely. This is a book to go back to time and again.

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    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this story very much but I’m taking away one star (should have been two!) for the HORRIBLE narration by author Amy Tan. I love her writing but I will never listen to another audiobook narrated by her. Pay a professional next time and stick to your great talent of writing fiction, Amy!

      1 person found this helpful