The Opposite of Fate (精装)

书籍目录

A Note to the ReaderFATE AND  FAITH  The CliffsNotes Version of My Life　How We Knew　A Question of Fate　FaithCHANGING THE  PAST　Last Week　My Grandmother's Choice　Thinly Disguised Memoir　Persona Errata　ScentAMERICAN　CIRCUMSTANCES　AND　CHINESE　CHARACTER　Fish Cheeks　Dangerous Advice　Midlife Confidential　Arrival Banquet　Joy Luck and HollywoodSTRONG WINDS,STRONG　INFLUENCES　What She Meant　Confessions　Pretty Beyond Belief　The Most Hateful Words　　My Love Affair with Vladimir NabokovLUCK, CHANCE,AND   A   CHARMED　LIFE　Inferior Decorating　　Room with a View, New Kitchen, and Ghosts　Retreat to Reality　My Hair, My Face, My Nails　The Ghosts of My ImaginationA CHOICE OF WORDSHOPE

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 Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny. She discovers answers in everyday actions and attitudes-from writing stories, decorating her house with charms, learning to ski, and living with squirrels, to dealing with three members of her family afflicted with brain disease, surviving natural disasters, and shaking off both family curses and the expectations that she should become a doctor and a concert pianist. 



 With the same spirit, humor, and magic that characterize her beloved novels, Amy Tan presents a refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties we face today, contemplating how things happen-in her own life and beyond-but always returning to the question of fate and its opposites: the choices, charms, influences, attitudes, and lucky accidents that shape us all.

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