Its narrator is Bibi Chen (whose relation to the story’s complex provenance is discussed in a brief prefatory note): a 60-ish California art collector/dealer and sometime travel guide, whose unexplained violent death limits her to joining the members of an American art tour “in spirit” only. 'Amy Tan is among our great storytellers.' The New York Times Book Review 'Amy Tan has created an almost magical adventure that, page by page, becomes a metaphor for human relationships.' Isabel Allende 'With humor, ruthlessness, and wild imagination, Tan has reaped fantastic tale of human longings and (of course) their consequences.' Elle 'A book that's easy to read and hard to forget.Tan’s ambitious fifth novel is a ghost’s story (though not a ghost story), about an American tourist party’s ordeal in the Southeast Asian jungles of Myanmar (formerly Burma). In the end, Tan takes her readers to that place in their own heart where hope is found. Bibi is the observant eye of human naturethe witness of good intentions and bad outcomes, of desperate souls and those who wish to save them.

With picaresque characters and mesmerizing imagery, Saving Fish from Drowning gives us a voice as idiosyncratic, sharp, and affectionate as the mothers of The Joy Luck Club. On Christmas morning, the tourists cruise across a misty lake and disappear. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires. that make this book pure pleasure.' San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. With Tan's many talents on display, it's her idiosyncratic wit and sly observations. packed the human capacity for love.' USA Today 'A superbly executed, good-hearted farce that is part romance and part mystery.

Saving fish from drowning by amy tan