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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? July 29
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Recently finished Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan.
It starts off by confusingly introducing a large number of characters at the narrator's funeral, but gets good once 12 of them arrive in China for the Burma Road trip she organized for them. She joins them in spirit, but can only observe cultural misunderstandings she would have saved them from had she been alive, culminating in 11 of them going missing without explanation when their lake excursion never returned.
It's surprisingly funny given the subject matter involving oppressive regimes and human rights abuses. It's also entertaining and informative and gets a positive recommendation.
I scored it under Minority Author for bingo as she is Chinese-American. However, I think Amy Tan's more interesting affiliation is as vocalist with the Rock Bottom Remainders, who I learned about after reading a good book by their guitarist.