Word: tans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AMERICANS FLOCK to glassy stores all over the nation to buy white onepocket T-shirts and buttonfly jeans, as the owners of Bennigan's and T.G.I. Friday's sit at their fern-ensconced tables to count their millions, as another Virginia family drives away with another unassembled tan sofa from Ikea, our senses of place and identity vanish into the democratic emptiness of Gapified America...
...days started getting shorter. And most of us were clinging to the last traces of summer, spending every waking moment working on the already fading tan. But not the Harvard women's volleyball team...
...days started getting shorter. And most of us were clinging to the last traces of summer, spending every waking moment working on the already fading tan. But not the Harvard women's volleyball team...
...point -- of Tan's novel is forgiveness, and the way in which understanding the miseries of others makes it harder to be hard on them. And as the story all but tells itself -- so seamlessly it feels as if Tan's ancestors are speaking through her -- it bestows on us a host of luminous surprises. The first is that the dowdy, pinchpenny old woman has a past more glamorous than fairy-tale, and more sad. The second is that in the light of her trials, her curious superstitions come to seem as sound as legal evidence. The final surprise...
BOOKS Amy Tan and the new wave of Asian-American writers...