And no one in Olivias family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan. In The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan, it slowly shows how Olivias character portrays the sister she was cut out to be. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her 'yin eyes. And out of the friction between her narrators, Amy Tan creates a work that illuminates both the present and the past sweetly, sadly, hilariously, with searing and vivid prose. The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. Even as Olivia details the particulars of her decades-long grudge against her sister (who, among other things, is a source of infuriatingly good advice), Kwan Li is telling her own story, one that sweeps us into the splendor, squalor, and violence of Manchu China. For Kwan speaks mangled English, is cheerfully deaf to Olivias sarcasm, and sees the dead with her yin eyes.
And no one in Olivias family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled E The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way.
The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way.
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