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...Opposite of Fate, Chinese-American novelist Amy Tan reveals that one of the reasons she became a writer was to make a testament to her mother, Daisy, who emigrated from China in 1949. The formidable Daisy, who appears frequently in this collection of essays, had a distinct voice of her own, typified by this Talibanic pronouncement on the mortal perils of dating: "Don't ever let boy kiss you. You do, you can't stop. Then you have baby. You put baby in garbage can. Police find you, put you in jail, then you life over, better just kill yourself...
...Ever since her debut novel, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan's fiction has sought to unweave the tangled web of family memory and to trace those threads that span continents?Asia and North America?and generations. Tan's stolid Chinese mothers are the repositories of those tightly bound reminiscences; to their conflicted daughters falls the duty of unraveling them. The Opposite of Fate is an attempt to pull at some of the loose ends, with added ruminations on the quirks of celebrity authorship, recollections of rocking-and-rolling with Stephen King and an inevitable (and forgettable) commencement address...
...Tan believes in real ghosts, like the kind that haunted her remodeled San Francisco attic and needed to be exorcised by a professional (as she writes in Room with a View, New Kitchen and Ghosts). That belief, like so much else, was bequeathed by her mother. Daisy consulted a Ouija board on how to raise Amy and her little brother, after her husband and eldest son both died of brain tumors in the same year. It makes sense that ghosts should be endemic to a life as haunted as Tan's. Besides the deaths of her father and brother...
...Telecom, has already sold 370,000 enabled handsets and should have reader technology installed at 400,000 stores by year-end. SK has only 30,000 subscribers, but, as with store value cards, the idea has viral growth potential. "M-finance is still in its infancy," says Natasha Tan, research manager at consulting firm IDC in Singapore. "But turning cell phones into electronic wallets is here to stay...
Asked about the average color of the universe, Basin blandly wondered, “What is tan?” while Naam showed a bit of crimson vocabulary in asking “What is taupe?” Both, however, were ruled wrong...