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Recommended Books: The Hundred Secret Senses
 

The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

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The Hundred Secret Senses

Amy Tan
New York, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995

| An American girl and her Chinese half-sister, travel to China, where the ghosts --figurative and literal -- of the sisters' shared past await them.

My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.

"Libby-ah," she'll say to me. "Guess who I saw yesterday, you guess." And I don't have to guess that she's talking about someone dead.




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