Saving Fish From Drowning
ISBN:
9780739461358 (0739461354)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Putnam
Pages no: 801
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
China
While I do understand the feeling that many readers may share that a particular writer should stick with "her" characters, "her" plot lines and should never stray, I can certainly understand why a writer would want to stretch beyond her boundaries. Or his boundaries, as the case may be.Writing is as...
As fun as this was to read, being part travelogue, part ghost story and part study of Americans in a strange land, I wasn't as hooked or charmed with this story as I have been with many of her others.
A bit outside Tan's usual scope. Not bad, but not great, either.