Author of the hundred secret senses5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Kwan's almost 50, and still a boisterously loving, relentlessly intrusive presence in Olivia's life. Despite her pledge, Olivia tattles to her mother that the new sister stays up all night talking to-and telling her about-ghosts, at which point Kwan is promptly packed off for a brief stay at a mental institution. She's a noisy, affectionate teen who makes Olivia promise to keep her secret-namely, that she has "yin eyes" that allow her to see and communicate with the dead. Two years later, Kwan arrives to join the family in San Francisco. Olivia is three years old when her dying father reveals that she has a half-sister back in his native China and asks her Idaho-born mother to retrieve her. ![]() Tan again revisits the rich intersection of Chinese and American female sensibilities ( The Joy Luck Club, 1989 The Kitchen God's Wife, 1991), this time layering her trademark home truths on the fragile foundation of an episodic century-old ghost story. ![]()
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