Saving Fish from Drowning - Large Print Author:Amy Tan A dozen tourists plan to take an art tour of Southern China and Burma, but their expert guide dies mysteriously mere weeks before their departure. When they proceed without her, she decides to join them literally in spirit. Bibi Chen is our narrator, guiding us on this ill-fated expedition filled with illusion, epiphanies, and a search for redem... more »ption unlike any you've ever known.
Eleven of the tourists leave their hotel for a Christmas-morning tour -- and disappear. Brought deep into the jungle, they will be held captive by a tribe whose existence is threatened by the military regime ruling Burma. The tribe wishes for the Westerners to save them, and gradually, the travelers realize they are stars in a gripping morality tale. No matter what their intentions were when they left home, their lives will be irrevocably changed.« less