Saving Fish from Drowning

Saving Fish from Drowning

I love Amy Tan, so I was excited to read one of her more recent novels, Saving Fish From Drowning. Although this was a departure from her usual subject matter, I really liked this novel.

It is  narrated by a very fiesty ghost named Bibi Chen, and follows the journey of 12 travellers into China and Burma on what ends up being a very unexpected experience deep in the Burmese jungle. The book brings to light the plight of the Karen hilltribe people and other little known truths in present day Myanmar.

I loved the setting and the journey and I was fully fooled by Tan regarding the authenticity of some facts around the novel, so it kept me interested. That is all I will say. There were some problems with the novel, but overall I really enjoyed it.


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