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Saving fish from drowning review5/28/2023 The dead woman, Bibi Chen, is able to be a completely omniscient narrator as she can now see into the thoughts of all her friends as well as the people they encounter along the way. Saving Fish is Tan’s own Cantebury Tales: a novel about twelve Americans on an ill-fated tour of Burma, narrated by the woman who organized the tour but unfortunately died before the trip took place. Saving Fish from Drowning is a striking departure from such earlier works as The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife, and I admire Tan for trying something so different. Her novels often focus on mother-daughter relationships, and on the immigrant experience. Amy Tan has become successful and well-known as a writer of intimate, observant fiction about Chinese and Chinese-American women. Some readers are happily surprised others are disappointed. Every so often, a writer who has become known for a specific type of book breaks the mold by going in a completely different direction. Some writers are quite comfortable with their role, while others constantly make us question what “kind” of writer they are by trying something different with each book. Just as it’s easy for an actor to become “typecast” after playing a certain type of role, it’s easy for a writer to become associated with a particular type of book.
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