The Hundred Secret Senses

The "wisest and most captivating novel". (Boston Globe. ) from the author of the bestselling The Joy Luck Club. and The Backyard Bird Chronicles. 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. 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. " Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage, as Kwan reveals her story, sweeping the reader into the splendor and violence of mid-nineteenth century China. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths.