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In 1976, Ivy must choose between participating in a gymnastics tournament and attending a family reunion, and fears she will wind up disappointing everyone, no matter what she decides to do.

Lifelong friends, Winnie and Helen, have kept each other's secrets for more than fifty years.

San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads LuLing's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China-- where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.

A Chinese-American grandmother relates family and cultural history from her life in Guangzhou, China to her grandchildren.

In these four previously published stories Katie learns to cope with situations she finds unpleasant.

Mona Chang, the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants, fully embraces the ideals of freedom and converts to Judaism in the first of many rebellions she stages in her search for individualism while growing up in the 1960s and 1970s.

A collection of eight stories in which the author chronicles the lives of Chinese and other Americans in search of the American dream.

Presents a collection of short nonfiction writings by novelist Amy Tan, including university talks, eulogies, E-mails, and poems, all united by Tan's musings on the role of luck in her life.

Kai Ting, a young Chinese-American boy adjusting to life in San Francisco after the death of his mother, must face cultural differences in his own family when his father takes a new American wife.

Fourteen-year-old Candace Ong finally gets her chance to get away from working in her parents' restaurant for the summer, but the world beyond what she is used to may be more than she can handle.

Oldest daughter Leila tells the story: of her sister Ona, who has ended her young, conflicted life by jumping from the roof of a Chinatown housing project; of her mother Mah, a seamstress in a garment shop run by a "Chinese Elvis"; of Leon, her father, a merchant seaman who ships out frequently; and the family's youngest, Nina, who has escaped to New York by working as a flight attendant.

Presents a collection of short nonfiction writings by novelist Amy Tan, including university talks, eulogies, E-mails, and poems, all united by Tan's musings on the role of luck in her life.

A collection of poems by award-winning author Marilyn Chin.

The Chang family comes to the United States with no real intention of staying; however, when the Communists take over China in 1949, Ralph Chang begins to look at the American dream in a whole new light.

In 1972, after his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen--but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share and bring them back to life.