A review by redowns1022
Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan

2.0

Amy Tan does not write with the same style or voice of Kitchen God's Wife or Joy Luck Club. I think the goal was to educate readers about an oppressive regime, but with a happy ending to the narrative rather than stories such as "What is the What" with little happiness throughout. She addresses this in the prologue to the novel. However, I never like any of the characters, American or Burmese. I also felt that the book moved very slowly for the first half. Once I entered the second half, when the Americans disappear into the jungle, I was finally engaged. Overall, I was not impressed or particularly grabbed by this novel.