Hundred Secret Senses

by Tan, Amy

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New York: Vintage Books, 1995 In THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES, Amy Tan fashions a novel about love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia's family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. Even as Olivia details the particulars of her decades-long grudge against her sister, Kwan Li is telling her own story, one that sweeps us into the splendor, squalor, and violence of Manchu China.. Trade Paperback. New/New.

Book summary

Olivia is 3 years old when she discovers she has a half-sister, Kwan, who lives in China. When Kwan arrives to join the family, she reveals her secret to Olivia--she has visions and communicates with ghosts. Many years later, Kwan tries to encourage Olivia not to give up on her marriage to Simon and convinces them both to travel to China with her. In this evocative setting, Kwan has her most disturbing and revealing visions about her own and her sister's past lives.