The Hundred Secret Senses

The Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan

The international bestseller from the author of ‘The Joy Luck Club’ and ‘The Bonesetter’s Daughter’.Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her life upside down, bombarding her day and night with ghostly stories of strange ancestors from the world of Yin. Olivia just wants to lead a normal American life.For the next thirty years, Olivia endures visits from Kwan and her ghosts, who appear in the living world to offer advice on everything from restaurants to Olivia’s failed marriage. But just when she cannot bear it any more, the revelations of a tragic family secret finally open her mind to the startling truths hidden in Kwan’s unorthodox vision of the world.

The Hundred Secret Senses

AMY TAN

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 (#u5e940b4c-4f5a-5c77-9941-d8524afd5409)

Title Page (#u3807d0c5-f928-50c8-8324-c15494cd495c)

I (#u8c430986-085c-54ac-a6c5-07d859fc05f3)

1 - THE GIRL WITH YIN EYES (#u18c7f1e3-8d54-54b9-a843-eee03c75c3de)

2 - FISHER OF MEN (#uf467798c-a9f9-5a11-b94b-fa4cff92137a)

3 - THE DOG AND THE BOA (#uc5bd6e2b-9f87-5973-ae0e-34166cde9327)

4 - THE GHOST MERCHANT’S HOUSE (#u8558bc86-3aee-5da2-aa5a-a0893256c056)

5 - LAUNDRY DAY (#u2f72c446-6d8a-53e0-afb0-199cfea42393)

II (#ue2fca0f1-feac-5501-985a-c35a7a67d830)

6 - FIREFLIES (#uc73063e0-bb6b-543b-bb8a-57c7d30b6a57)

7 - THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES (#litres_trial_promo)

8 - THE CATCHER OF GHOSTS (#litres_trial_promo)

9 - KWAN’S FIFTIETH (#litres_trial_promo)

III (#litres_trial_promo)

10 - KWAN’S KITCHEN (#litres_trial_promo)

11 - NAME CHANGE (#litres_trial_promo)

12 - THE BEST TIME TO EAT DUCK EGGS (#litres_trial_promo)

13 - YOUNG GIRL’S WISH (#litres_trial_promo)

14 - HELLO GOOD-BYE (#litres_trial_promo)

15 - THE SEVENTH DAY (#litres_trial_promo)

16 - BIG MA’S PORTRAIT (#litres_trial_promo)

17 - THE YEAR OF NO FLOOD (#litres_trial_promo)

18 - SIX-ROLL SPRING CHICKEN (#litres_trial_promo)

19 - THE ARCHWAY (#litres_trial_promo)

20 - THE VALLEY OF STATUES (#litres_trial_promo)

21 - WHEN HEAVEN BURNED (#litres_trial_promo)

22 - WHEN LIGHT BALANCES WITH DARK (#litres_trial_promo)

IV (#litres_trial_promo)

23 - THE FUNERAL (#litres_trial_promo)

24 - ENDLESS SONGS (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Praise for The Hundred Secret Senses (#litres_trial_promo)

BY THE SAME AUTHOR (#litres_trial_promo)

P.S. Ideas, interviews & features… (#litres_trial_promo)

About the author (#litres_trial_promo)

Profile of Amy Tan

Q&A (#litres_trial_promo)

Life at a Glance (#litres_trial_promo)

MY FAVOURITE BOOKS (#litres_trial_promo)

About the book (#litres_trial_promo)

A Critical Eye

Extract from The Opposite of Fate (#litres_trial_promo)