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A Note to the Reader | p. 1 |
Fate and Faith | |
The CliffsNotes Version of My Life | p. 7 |
How We Knew | p. 39 |
A Question of Fate | p. 41 |
Faith | p. 61 |
Changing the Past | |
Last Week | p. 69 |
My Grandmother's Choice | p. 99 |
Thinly Disguised Memoir | p. 105 |
Persona Errata | p. 113 |
Scent | p. 121 |
American Circumstances and Chinese Character | |
Fish Cheeks | p. 125 |
Dangerous Advice | p. 128 |
Midlife Confidential | p. 135 |
Arrival Banquet | p. 154 |
Joy Luck and Hollywood | p. 176 |
Strong Winds, Strong Influences | |
What She Meant | p. 207 |
Confessions | p. 212 |
Pretty Beyond Belief | p. 215 |
The Most Hateful Words | p. 218 |
My Love Affair with Vladimir Nabokov | p. 221 |
Luck, Chance, and a Charmed Life | |
Inferior Decorating | p. 231 |
Room with a View, New Kitchen, and Ghosts | p. 235 |
Retreat to Reality | p. 239 |
My Hair, My Face, My Nails | p. 245 |
The Ghosts of My Imagination | p. 250 |
A Choice of Words | |
What the Library Means to Me | p. 269 |
Mother Tongue | p. 271 |
The Language of Discretion | p. 280 |
Five Writing Tips | p. 291 |
Required Reading and Other Dangerous Subjects | p. 299 |
Angst and the Second Book | p. 324 |
The Best Stories | p. 334 |
Hope | |
What I Would Remember | p. 357 |
To Complain Is American | p. 360 |
The Opposite of Fate | p. 367 |
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