"TRULY MAGICAL... UNFORGETTABLE... The firstperson narrator is Olivia Laguni, and her,unrelenting nemesis from childhood on is her half-sister, Kwan Li It is Kwan’s haunting predictions, her implementation of the secret senses, and her linking of the present with the past that cause this novel to shimmer with meaning--and to leave it in the reader’s mind when the book has long been finished."
--The San Diego Tribune
"HER MOST POLISHED WORK... Tan is a wonderful storyteller, and the story’s many strands--Olivia’s childhood, her courtship and marriage, Kwan’s ghost stories and village tales--propel the work to its climactic but bittersweet end."
--USA Today