![]() ![]() She includes more men in her narrative and reaches for broader comic effect. ![]() Tan's new book poses many of her familiar questions, but in unfamiliar ways. One character in Saving Fish thinks the issue settled: "What was a family if not members of a crisis with a happy outcome?" Caught between the conflicting demands of the traditional past and the rootless present, her funny, poignant mothers and daughters, ever at each other's throat, struggle with the question of what it means to be a family. No one writes with more grace and authority on the cross-cultural fault line that divides a Chinese immigrant generation and its American children. She has long pleased readers with this theme, beginning 16 years ago with The Joy Luck Club. There are plenty of fish in need of rescue in Saving Fish From Drowning, Tan's winding tale of East-West cultural miscommunication. ![]() With the money he earns, he buys more nets to save more fish. ![]() When they die on the shore, he gathers them up to avoid the sin of waste and takes them to market to sell. A Buddhist parable provides the title for Amy Tan's crafty fifth novel: A pious man drops his net into the water and scoops out hundreds of fish to save them from drowning. ![]()
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