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Saving Fish from Drowning

Amy Tan

Paperback | Pages: 472 pages

Rating: 3.43 | 28972 Users | 2869 Reviews

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Title	:	Saving Fish from Drowning
Author	:	Amy Tan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Ballantine Reader's Circle
Pages	:	Pages: 472 pages
Published	:	September 26th 2006 by Ballantine Books (first published 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. China. Asia. Literature. Asian Literature. Novels. Contemporary

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San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires. On Christmas morning, the tourists cruise across a misty lake and disappear. With picaresque characters and mesmerizing imagery, Saving Fish from Drowning gives us a voice as idiosyncratic, sharp, and affectionate as the mothers of The Joy Luck Club. Bibi is the observant eye of human nature–the witness of good intentions and bad outcomes, of desperate souls and those who wish to save them. In the end, Tan takes her readers to that place in their own heart where hope is found.

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Original Title:	Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel
ISBN:	034546401X (ISBN13: 9780345464019)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Bibi Chen
Setting:	Myanmar Burma
Literary Awards:	Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction Honor (2005)

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- I didnt like this book at all. I never bonded with the characters and couldnt wait to finish. The story is told from a dead womans perspective. That should have been my first clue. She dies right before she is suppose to be a tour guide for a trip to Burma (or Myanmar as it is now known). The group goes anyway. They start in China, but because of their lack of respect for the land and natural exhibits, they are kicked out and told they are not welcome. So the get to Myanmar early. The storys

If Tolstoy and Cecil B. DeMille collaborated on a novel, it would turn out something like this: A cast of thousands of miserable characters.Saving Fish From Drowning was not a novel, but an endurance test. If I didn't have to facilitate a book group about this novel, I would not have read past the first 50 pages. I've heard great things about Amy Tan, and haven't read her other stuff -- and won't discount it based on this -- but lordy, I have no incentive to read her work now.This novel is a

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news...Author Tan back in the swim'Fish' departs from Chinese-American tales, features Chaucer spinJenny Shank, Special to the NewsPublished October 28, 2005 at midnightAmy Tan's last book, 2003's nonfiction collection The Opposite of Fate, closed with an essay about her struggle with Lyme disease. Tan described increasingly alarming symptoms, including joint pain, difficulty with organization, and visual hallucinations, and she left her fans with a cliff hanger:

I wish this novel lived up to it's name. Instead of Saving Fish from Drowning as it claimed, this story slowly suffocated. Amy Tan let it flip flop all over the place in front of you, and then, when you thought it couldn't possibly still be alive, it would spring up and kinda flop over again.The story is apparently about a woman called Bibi (which is a ridiculous name... no offence to any one reading called Bibi, you can't help your parents). She's dead. That's not a spoiler, it happens on page

It took me awhile to read this novel. Each paragraph holds thoughtful meanings and insight that aren't quickly digested but gradually enjoyed. Human nature, what we are about, what I do and why I do what I do, are some things stirred up. I love all of Amy Tan's writing. Her history of China is right there with Buck's The Good Earth. I would ask one thing of her. To keep writing novels.

I read this book a long time ago and should have written this review a long time ago. What a wonder this book is! Having read all of Amy Tans books, I expected good writing, serious cultural and gender themes, and disturbing realities. What I did not expect was this book. It is side splittingly, laugh out-loud, hilarious!You get the usual significant wit, wisdom and writing chomps of Amy Tan, along with Swiftian satire, that is stand up comedian funny. Think Robin Williams relaxed.Every bit of

this is the first book i read the intro, and i am glad i did. the author was wandering in nyc when rain forced her to seek refuge in the American Psychical Institute. there she found a volume on "automatic writing," in which there was a factual decription of a woman who was experiencing auto writing from a woman Bibi Chen. Bibi Chen was not an imagined person - she was an actual person that Amy Tan knew. The writings are further authenticated because the subject matter was the recent