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INTERVIEW: American novelist Amy Tan discusses her book The Kitchen God's Wife (1991, Putnam) and her Chinese-American sensibility. READING: Tan reads "Too Much Yin" from The Kitchen God's Wife at Toronto Harbourfront. INTERVIEW and READING: Canadian writer Margaret Atwood on the darker aspects of her new fiction collection Wilderness Tips (1991, McClelland & Stewart) and reads excerpts from "Hairball."

Eleanor speaks with Amy Tan about her gripping new novel, The Valley of Amazement - her first in eight years. The book revolves around the world of the courtesan in early 20th century Shanghai.