LITMIR.BIZ

       For Faith

      To write this story, I depended on the indulgence, advice, conversations, and sustenance of many: Babalu, Ronald Bass, Linden and Logan Berry, Dr. Thomas Brady, Sheri Byrne, Joan Chen, Mary Clemmey, Dr. Asa DeMatteo, Bram and Sandra Dijkstra, Terry Doxey, Tina Eng, Dr. Joseph Esherick, Audrey Ferber, Robert Foothorap, Laura Gaines, Ann and Gordon Getty, Molly Giles, Amy Hempel, Anna Jardine, Peter Lee Kenfield, Dr. Eric Kim, Gus Lee, Cora Miao, Susanne Pari, the residents of Pei Sa Bao village, Robin and Annie Renwick, Gregory Asturo Riley, the Rock Bottom Remainders, Faith and Kirkpatrick Sale, Orville Schell, Gretchen Schields, the staff of Shelburne House Library, Kelly Simon, Dr. Michael Strong, Daisy Tan, John Tan, Dr. Steven Vandervort, Lijun Wang, Wayne Wang, Yuhang Wang, Russell Wong, the people of Yaddo, and Zo.

      I thank them, but do not hold them accountable for the felicitous and sometimes unwitting ways in which they contributed to the truth of this fiction.

      Table of Contents

       Cover

      Title Page

I

1 - THE GIRL WITH YIN EYES

2 - FISHER OF MEN

3 - THE DOG AND THE BOA

4 - THE GHOST MERCHANT’S HOUSE

5 - LAUNDRY DAY

II

6 - FIREFLIES

       7 - THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES

       8 - THE CATCHER OF GHOSTS

      9 - KWAN’S FIFTIETH

       III

       10 - KWAN’S KITCHEN

       11 - NAME CHANGE

       12 - THE BEST TIME TO EAT DUCK EGGS

       13 - YOUNG GIRL’S WISH

       14 - HELLO GOOD-BYE

       15 - THE SEVENTH DAY

       16 - BIG MA’S PORTRAIT

       17 - THE YEAR OF NO FLOOD

       18 - SIX-ROLL SPRING CHICKEN

       19 - THE ARCHWAY

       20 - THE VALLEY OF STATUES

       21 - WHEN HEAVEN BURNED

      22 - WHEN LIGHT BALANCES WITH DARK

       IV

       23 - THE FUNERAL

      24 - ENDLESS SONGS

       About the Author

       Praise for The Hundred Secret Senses

      BY THE SAME AUTHOR

       P.S. Ideas, interviews & features…

       About the author

       Profile of Amy Tan

       Q&A

       Life at a Glance

       MY FAVOURITE BOOKS

       About the book

       A Critical Eye

       Extract from The Opposite of Fate

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       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       I

       1 THE GIRL WITH YIN EYES

      My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.

      ‘Libby-ah,’ she’ll say to me. ‘Guess who I see yesterday, you guess.’ And I don’t have to guess that she’s talking about someone dead.

      Actually, Kwan is my half sister, but I’m not supposed to mention that publicly. That would be an insult, as if she deserved only fifty percent of the love from our family. But just to set the genetic record straight,

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