"...I had seen the signs, really I had. But I just let it happen. And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by intention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation" (Tan, Joy 131). Amy Tan tells the tales of her childhood, and the history of her mother and grandmother through her works, …showed first 75 words of 1550 total…

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