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The Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan, 1995
Random House
406 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780375701528

Summary
Amy Tan's latest effort unfolds a series of family secrets that questions the connection between fate, beliefs, and hopes, memory and imagination, and the natural gifts of our hundred secret senses. Years after her Chinese half-sister assails her with ghost stories set in the mysterious world of Yin, a young woman finds herself in China, looking for a way to reconcile the ghosts of her past with the dreams of her future. (From the publisher.)