{"id":7708,"date":"1997-03-02T13:32:37","date_gmt":"1997-03-02T17:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:34:29","slug":"the-hundred-secret-senses-by-amy-tan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-hundred-secret-senses-by-amy-tan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Hundred-Secret-Senses1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33188\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/Hundred-Secret-Senses1.jpg\" alt=\"Hundred Secret Senses\" width=\"315\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>At age 6, Olivia meets for the first time, her adult half-sister Kwan, just arrived from China. Kwan shares with a disbelieving Olivia her stories of the Yin people \u2013\u00a0people not of this world with whom Kwan is able to communicate. Thirty years later, fate brings Kwan, Olivia, and Simon, Olivia\u2019s estranged husband, to Kwan\u2019s native village in China. There Olivia finally comes to understand Kwan, especially Kwan\u2019s unconditional love for and loyalty to her, even when Olivia did not always deserve it.<\/p>\n<p>The title refers to the ability to use one\u2019s &#8220;hundred secret senses,&#8221; to think and look beyond the everyday seven senses and to rely on all of one\u2019s heart and soul to recognize the extraordinary. Kwan\u2019s link to the &#8220;World of Yin&#8221; is due to her familiarity with her own hundred secret senses, a skill she is always reminding Olivia to rely on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1995<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6902\" title=\"Hundred Secret Senses\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/hundred-secret-senses.jpg\" alt=\"Hundred Secret Senses\" width=\"126\" height=\"196\" \/>At age 6, Olivia meets for the first time, her adult half-sister Kwan, just arrived from China. Kwan shares with a disbelieving Olivia her stories of the Yin people \u2013 people not of this world with whom Kwan is able to communicate. Thirty years later, fate brings Kwan, Olivia, and Simon, Olivia\u2019s estranged husband, to Kwan\u2019s native village in China. There Olivia finally comes to understand Kwan, especially Kwan\u2019s unconditional love for and loyalty to her, even when Olivia did not always deserve it.<\/p>\n<p>The title refers to the ability to use one\u2019s &#8220;hundred secret senses,&#8221; to think and look beyond the everyday seven senses and to rely on all of one\u2019s heart and soul to recognize the extraordinary. Kwan\u2019s link to the &#8220;World of Yin&#8221; is due to her familiarity with her own hundred secret senses, a skill she is always reminding Olivia to rely on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? 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