Fate and faith: CliffsNotes version of my life
How we knew
Question of fate
Faith
Changing the past: Last week
My grandmother's choice
Thinly disguised memoir
Persona errata
Scent
American circumstances and Chinese character: Fish cheeks
dangerous advice
Midlife confidential
Arrival banquet
Joy luck and Hollywood
Strong winds, strong influences: What she meant
Confessions
Pretty beyond belief
Most hateful words
My love affair with Vladimir Nabokov
Luck, chance, and a charmed life: Inferior decorating
Room with a view, new kitchen, and ghosts
Retreat to reality
My hair, my face, my nails
Ghosts of my imagination
Choice of words: What the library means to me
Mother tongue
Language of discretion
Five writing tips
Required reading and other dangerous subjects
Angst and the second book
Best stories
Hope: What I would remember
To complain is American
Opposite of fate.