Lenka S. reviewed on 3/14/2009 + 850 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

You may think of me as Amy basher but her 'companion' book to her thoughts and life while writing her books is her worst work.
I loved all of her fiction books, and will continue to look forward her next one. But this book is sketchy, FRAGMENTED, CONTRADICTORY and obviously written in very dark mood.

In one chapter Amy is critical of writing about the real life and the next she describes all the horrible way her relatives and friends keep dying, (well so do mine, but I don't consider that to be a good dinner topic). She self interviews correcting some of the worst net blunders and the next moment she quotes from her books in reference to her life saying in short the books are from real life but are totally made up...? Then the book switches to some distubing memories and the next minute Amy is rethorically dscussing the political corectnes of todays writers and how she doesn't like to be boxed in and labeled as minority writer. I do agree with her on the point of political corectnes dictating who can write what and how it should be written. But she has only written books based on her experiences as asian american, which (pardon me) makes her asian-american writer...

It is nice to see all that is behind Amy Tan's books, (and great books they are) but this one is very fragmented diary, glued together, but the pieces don't quite fit which makes it very hard to read. I expected much better form her.
If you read all her books, you might as well read this one, but don't buy it. Chances are it will not be a keeper.

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