TY - BOOK AU - Tan,Amy TI - The opposite of fate: a book of musings SN - 0399150749 AV - PS3570.A48 Z47 2003 U1 - 813/.54B 21 PY - 0000/// CY - New York PB - Putnam KW - Tan, Amy. KW - Tan, Amy KW - Novelists, American KW - 20th century KW - Family relationships KW - Biography KW - Chinese Americans KW - Free will and determinism KW - Chinese American families KW - Fiction KW - Authorship KW - Fate and fatalism KW - fast KW - Families KW - American novelists KW - Family KW - sears KW - United States KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - 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 N2 - Born into a family who believed in fate, Amy Tan has always looked for alternative ways to make sense of the world. And now, in The Opposite of Fate, her first book of non-fiction she shares her thoughts on how she escaped the expectations and curses of her past, and created her own destiny UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2003047190-s.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2003047190-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2003047190-d.html ER -