Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan 🔖🔖

First published January 1, 2005

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Awards: Honorable mention from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature

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San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires. On Christmas morning, the tourists cruise across a misty lake and disappear ... Bibi is the observant eye of human nature–the witness of good intentions and bad outcomes, of desperate souls and those who wish to save them ... (Source: goodreads)

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I very much wanted to love this book and kept reading to find the meaning and depth I was hoping would be in the pages. That's not what happened, and the flow was sluggish and mostly uninteresting. I trudged along and was quite happy when I finished, not because it leaves me thinking or pondering any message or any character, but because finally I could move on.