Saving Fish From Drowning
Amy Tan
"I heard about Saving Fish From Drowning when I went to a - what was it? Some sort of book club forum here in the Bay Area for the kidney foundation. Anyway, Amy Tan was speaking, and she had just published the book, and she was just speaking about her life and the book and the voice of her mother that sort of permeates throughout. And I'm a huge Amy Tan fan, so I definitely was going to go get this book, and luckily I was able to pick it up at this forum and get an autographed copy, and read it immediately afterward.
I just enjoyed the interactions with the different characters throughout - the tour group; you kind of learn a little bit more about them along the way. You see how they interact with each other in stress. It seemed very plausible, the whole story. It seemed like it could really happen.
The voice of the narrator, who was this deceased Chinese shopkeeper from
an Francisco, was very similar to some of the voices you might hear in her other books. After hearing her talk, it definitely sounds like what she says about her mom all the time.
I'd give this book probably four out of five. I mean, I really did like it. I think I like some of Amy Tan's other books a little bit better. She tends to involve a lot of characters. There's usually a lot of people in her books. This one had more than usual, so in some ways it was a little bit challenging to keep up with who was who and their whole background stories and how they interrelated. But all in all, it was a really great read."
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