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Stella Dong

Genre Fiction

Latest book Saving Fish from Drowning

Born Oakland, California

Lives San Francisco and New York

Other Works The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter,  The Opposite of Fate

Other jobs Switchboard operator; waiter at a drive-in restaurant;  pizza slinger; language consultant working with disabled children;  associate publisher  of a medical newsletter

Family Husband Lou DeMattei and Yorkshire terriers Bubba and Lilli

Next project An opera based on The Bonesetter's Daughter in collaboration with composer Stuart Wallace

What the papers say 'Amy Tan ... has a wonderful eye for what is telling, a fine ear for dialogue ...  and a  straightforward way of writing.' - The New York Times

Favourite books

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

'A favourite for many reasons, but especially language.'

Jane Eyre by Emily Bronte

'A sentimental favourite from childhood.'

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

'A moving evocation of the ties that bind people together.'

Love in the Time of Cholera  by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

'No one mixes fantasy with reality as expertly as Garcia-Marquez.'

The Canterbury Tales  by Geoffrey Chaucer

'I love the idea of telling the stories of 12 people travelling together on a journey.'



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