![]() ![]() Now Kwan's almost 50, and still a boisterously loving, relentlessly intrusive presence in Olivia's life. Despite her pledge, Olivia tattles to her mother that the new sister stays up all night talking to-and telling her about-ghosts, at which point Kwan is promptly packed off for a brief stay at a mental institution. She's a noisy, affectionate teen who makes Olivia promise to keep her secret-namely, that she has "yin eyes" that allow her to see and communicate with the dead. ![]() Two years later, Kwan arrives to join the family in San Francisco. Olivia is three years old when her dying father reveals that she has a half-sister back in his native China and asks her Idaho-born mother to retrieve her. Tan again revisits the rich intersection of Chinese and American female sensibilities ( The Joy Luck Club, 1989 The Kitchen God's Wife, 1991), this time layering her trademark home truths on the fragile foundation of an episodic century-old ghost story. ![]()
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