'Saving Fish From Drowning': Bus of Fools
Amy Tan is among our great storytellers. In each of her previous
novels, she has seduced readers with the intimate magic of her
tale. In 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Bonesetter's Daughter,' she
enthralled us with the painful complexity of human relationships,
especially between mothers and daughters. Obscure parts of history
became as immediate as the reader's own experience; she made us
breathe the air of other times and places.
Her newest novel, 'Saving Fish From Drowning,' half spoof and half
fairy tale, is narrated by Bibi Chen, a San Francisco socialite and
art dealer who was supposed to lead a group of high-powered friends
on a trip down the Burma Road, starting in Lijiang in China and
continuing across the border into Myanmar, appreciating cultural
sites and natural beauty along the way. Bibi Chen has died under
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