The Kitchen God's Wife
Lifelong friends, Winnie and Helen, have kept each other's secrets for more than fifty years.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 37
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: chinese american families [X], chinese americans, mothers and daughters, california, china, mother-daughter relationship, tan, amy, chinese-american literature
The Bonesetter's Daughter
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.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: chinese american families [X], chinese american women, mothers and daughters, women immigrants, women, china, immigrants, domestic fiction, mother-daughter relationship
The Opposite Of Fate
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.
921
year: 2003
copies: 5
call number/section: 921
lexile:
subjects: tan, amy, novelists, american, chinese americans, free will and determinism, chinese american families [X]
The Opposite Of Fate
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.
813
year: 2004
copies: 3
call number/section: 813
lexile:
subjects: tan, amy, novelists, american, chinese americans, free will and determinism, chinese american families [X]