Saving Fish From Drowning

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Amy Tan. Saving Fish From Drowning

AMY TAN. Saving Fish from Drowning

CONTENTS

1 A BRIEF HISTORY OF MY SHORTENED LIFE

2 MY PLANS UNDONE

3 SUCH WAS THEIR KARMA

4 HOW HAPPINESS FOUND THEM

5 WE ALL DO WHAT WE MUST

6 SAVING FISH FROM DROWNING

7 THE JACARANDAS

8 IT WAS NOT JUST A CARD TRICK

9 NO TRACE

10 NO NAME PLACE

11 THEY ALL STUCK TOGETHER

12 DARWIN’S FITTEST

13 OF PARTICULAR CONCERN

14 THE INVENTION OF NOODLES

15 A PROMISING LEAD

16 HOW THEY MADE THE NEWS

17 THE APPEARANCE OF MIRACLES

18 THE NATURE OF HAPPY ENDINGS

P.S

About the Book. A Conversation with Amy Tan

About the Author. Life at a Glance

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PRAISE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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COPYRIGHT

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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Sweet Ma held up a hairpin for me to see but not touch. “She named you Bifang because your father gave her this ugly thing to commemorate your successful birth.” It was a hairpin with a hundred tiny leaves carved out of bright imperial-green jade. Within the branches were peony blossoms made of tiny diamonds. The shining hairpin, when placed in the hair, suggested a glorious spring. Upon seeing that hairpin for the first time, I knew why she named me Bifang: I was her precious jade, her budding treasure, her glorious spring. Bifang.

Sweet Ma tried to change my school name as well. “I like the name Bibi,” I said. “Father calls me that.”

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