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    <![CDATA[The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life]]>
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    <![CDATA[  Amy Tan has touched millions of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of   cultural complexity and profound empathy. With the same spirit and humor that   characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life   and how   she escaped the curses of her past to make a future of her own. She takes us on   a journey   from her childhood of tragedy and comedy to the present day and her arrival as   one of the   world’s best-loved novelists. Whether recalling arguments with her mother in   suburban   California or introducing us to the ghosts that inhabit her computer, <em>The   Opposite of   Fate</em> offers vivid portraits of choices, attitudes, charms, and luck in   action—a   refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties we all face today.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like books about the writing process and this is a good one. It was also a needed respite from the spate of books involving terribly repressed, oppressed and depressed women. The book is a collection of musings, talks, diary entries and essays written by Tan over a number of years - many have been...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40194147">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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