"By imagining fully,

And becoming that imagined and yet real world..."

"Imagining is the closest thing to feeling compassion..if i just feel what is in one story...imagining till there is a transparency between me and the story"

- Amy Tan, in TEDtalks

Its wonderful how Amy tan tries to marry what her traditional chinese mom said, and what amy hears around her, frm her western culture...how identity crisis can be so powerful, so powerful in creating something out of nothing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D0pwe4vaQo&feature=channel