Barbara S. (micelly) reviewed Saving Fish From Drowning on 2/9/2009

Helpful Score: 2

Although this book is somewhat a removal from both of the other Amy Tan books which I have read (The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife) in that the narrator of this book is not only a character in the book but is also dead, it is a very interesting look into the old Burma and what is today called "Myanmar." I think that with all of the news coverage of the problems in the Middle East we tend to forgrt or overlook the smaller, less Oil Involved struggles taking place in our world. The quest for power is as insatiable as the quest for crude oil but because it doesn't affect our way of life our heads tend to turn the other way....away from the atrocities being done to normal every day persons like ourselves, however far removed from us physically. Although, as always, Ms. Tan's book contains a healthy amount of humor it is interspersed with very real injustices going on in our world both in the past and today with a very interesting glimpse into a culture so extremely different from our own that that in itsself is intrisicly interesting in and of itself. I feel the need to thank Ms. Tan on creating another multi-faceted and fascinating novel.

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