
"THE WISEST AND MOST CAPTIVATING NOVEL TAN HAS WRITTEN."The Boston Sunday Globe "TRULY MAGICAL . . . UNFORGETTABLE . . . The first-person narrator is Olivia Laguni, and her unrelenting nemesis from childhood on is her half-sister, Kwan Li. . . . It is Kwan's haunting predictions, her implementation of the secret senses, and her linking of the present with the past that cause this novel to shimmer with meaningand to leave it in the readers mind when the book has long been finished." The San Diego Tribune "HER MOST POLISHED WORK . . . Tan is a wonderful storyteller, and the story's many strandsOlivia's childhood, her courtship and marriage, Kwan's ghost stories and village talespropel the work to its climactic but bittersweet end." USA Today "TAN HAS ONCE MORE PRODUCED A NOVEL WONDERFULLY LIKE A HOLOGRAM: turn it this way and find Chinese-Americans shopping...
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