DUC Lectures-Amy Tan

The Institute for Leadership Studies, in cooperation with One Book One Marin and Book Passage, presents: 2008 One Book One Marin Award, Amy Tan in conversation with Michael Krasny. Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Saving Fish from Drowning, set in Burma, is a provocative and mesmerizing tale about what is real and what is make believe — and the profound answers one seeks when things seemingly fall apart.
Amy Tan has fashioned a distinctive fictional landscape, where Asia meets America, and where the traditional past encounters the shape-shifting present. In the end, Tan takes all readers to that place in their own hearts where hope is found.