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A Not-So-Dutiful Daughter

Date of Review:

11/23/2003

Published Work:

Reviewer:

Deborah Mason

Source:

The New York Times

Review Excerpt:

Many of the essays in The Opposite of Fate are sharp and invigorating, like “Mother Tongue,” Tan’s defense of the fierce, primal authority of her mother’s “broken” English. … But it is Tan’s excursions into past lives—her family’s and her own—that make for the most fertile reading.

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