Book Tuesday: Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan

In this novel by Amy Tan, there are twelve American tourists in an art expedition that start in the Himalayan foothills of China and heads south into the jungles of Burma. But when their guide died mysteriously, their plans fall apart and the group falls into disharmony. The twelve American tourist quickly realize that the Burma Road is paved with less than honorable intentions. Then on Christmas morning eleven of the travelers boat across a misty lake for a sunrise cruise and disappear.

Taking from the current political reality in Burma and woven with pure confabulation, Saving Fish from Drowning presents a question: How do we discern what is real and what is fiction in everything we see? How do we know what to believe?

With her unique brand of writing Amy Tan presents a provocative and mesmerizing about the mind and the heart of the individual, the action we choose, and the moral questions we might have of ourselves. It is a journey of self -exploration when we are face with unreachable happiness.